The Advisory Board

  • Prof. Thomas Crowther

    CROWTHER LAB, ETH ZURICH

    Assistant professor of Global Ecosystem Ecology in the department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich. Co-chair of the Advisory Board for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Young Global Leader in World Economic Forum.

  • Prof. Lene Lange

    Professor, PhD & DSc in Mycology, LL-BioEconomy, Denmark; Scientific Committee, EU BBI-JU & CBE-JU

    Vice Chair, Sci. Comm., BBI-JU, Hor2020, now CBE-JU, HE
    Member Danish and Nordic Bioeconomy Panel  
    Former, Research Director, Mol. Biotech. Novozymes
    Chair & Professor, Inst. of Biology, Univ. of CPH.
    Dean & Director of Research, AAU
    Professor & Research-leader, DTULL BIOECONOMY, Founder and Owner

  • Dr. Bonnie Waring

    SENIOR LECTURER

    Grantham Institute Climate Change and Environment at Imperial College London. The Waring Ecology Lab investigates how the ecology of plant and soil microbial communities influences the carbon cycle and its feedbacks on climate change.

  • Nicky Deasy

    CEO ALTACF

    Co-Founder and former Managing Partner at The Yield Lab Europe, a EUR55M sustainable agrifood tech VC where Nicky focused on biologicals/life science. Currently advising several start-ups and VC funds.

  • Colin Averill

    FUNGA, FOUNDER and CEO

    Co-founder and CEO of Funga. Colin also runs a research program at ETH Zürich's Crowther Lab where his team studies the forest microbiome. Colin also co-founded SPUN - a scientific research organization focused on global mapping of mycorrhizal fungal communities and advocating for their protection.

  • David Andrew Quist

    FOUNDER AND CSO NOMY (NORWEGIAN MYCELIUM)