The Story Collider is delighted to partner with Springer Nature for this online storytelling show in which five Springer Nature authors will share stories from their work related to sustainability. This show is held in conjunction with Berlin Science Week.

Radenka Krsmanović Whiffen is the Assistant Director of the FoodHub Centre of Excellence and an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Polytechnics at the University of Donja Gorica, in Podgorica, Montenegro. She is a former MSCA Individual Fellow at the ENEA Casaccia Research Centre, in Rome, Italy where she worked on her project developing ceramics for pyroelectric energy harvesting. She gained a PhD from the Department of Physics of the University of Antwerp, Belgium in 2006, for her work on luminescent nanomaterials and novel glass ceramics, and subsequently worked in the field of Material Science in Italy, France, Serbia and Portugal.

She is the founding Chair of the Western Balkans Chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA). This role enabled her to engage with and represent the interest of researchers from across the Western Balkan region, encouraging better science communication, sustainable research cultures and supporting innovative and non-linear career paths. She is an advocate for Science for Policy, Science Diplomacy, Open Science, RRI and gender equality in research. She is the Montenegrin representative on the Council of the recently founded Regional Network of Women in STEM for the Western Balkans.

Max Jamilly is the co-founder of Hoxton Farms. Based in London, Hoxton Farms make real animal fat – without the animals. Max has spent the last decade in the UK and USA using biotechnology to solve problems. He has a PhD from Oxford and two degrees from Cambridge and he's obsessed with the future of food.

Christian Reynolds is Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Food Policy, City University, London; and an adjunct Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Food, University of Sheffield, and at the Barbara Hardy Institute for Sustainable Environments and Technologies, University of South Australia.

Christian is recognised as a global expert on food loss and waste and sustainable diets. He has worked on these issues in Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, the UK, US, and Europe. He is the lead editor of the Routledge Handbook of Food Waste (2019); he has also co-authoured over 40 peer reviewed publications, as well as multiple reports and book chapters. Christian has given evidence to UK and NZ parliaments on FLW and contributed to the Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard. Christian also researches sustainable cookery; food history; and the political power of food in international relations.

Jill Edmondson an environmental scientist in the School of Biosciences at the University of Sheffield.  Her work focusses on how to make our cities more sustainable in the future. She's really interested in the the role of growing fruit and vegetables in cities to feed local people, reconnect people with food production and provide health and wellbeing benefits.

She spends her free time riding bikes, gardening and cooking with her family.

Evan Fraser is passionate about food systems and sustainability. He believes change happens when you connect government, business, producers, and community members together to solve problems related to the food system. His current position is as Director of Arrell Food Institute, University of Guelph, Canada.

Story Collider Presents: SN Storytellers at Berlin Science Week 2021