III Cellular Agriculture Conference 2025
17-18 September, 2025
City Hall, Lund
Scientific committee
Olafur Fridjonsson
Olafur Fridjonsson obtained his doctorate degree from the University of Stuttgart in 1999. Since then, he has been active in R&D affiliated with biotechnology, enzyme technology and process development. He is currently Research Group Leader in Biotechnology at Matís, an Icelandic R&D company servicing the food, feed and biotech industries. In recent years, Fridjonsson has been active in research on marine bioresources, especially macroalgae and their biorefinery potentials. He has also been engaged in developing utilization of side streams, e.g. for production of alternative proteins. Fridjonsson has a long experience as a PI, is a coordinator in national and international research projects and has collaborated with scientists from many of the largest food and ingredient companies in the world such as PepsiCo, Nestlé and Roquette.
Prof. Jette Feveile Young
Jette Feveile Young is professor at Department of Food Science, Aarhus University where she since 2009 has been leading a science group on Differentiated and Biofunctional Food. Her research focuses on meat quality and nutritional effects of food components. More than 20 years of research experience within meat science and in vitro cell based techniques has led to her interest in cultivated meat. She leads several projects on cultivated meat including a CellFood hub at Aarhus University.
Principal Scientist, Adjunct Prof. Anneli Ritala
Anneli Ritala is a Principal Scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland working in Industrial Biotechnology and Food business area. Anneli´s expertise is in cellular agriculture particularly in valorisation of agri-food side streams as feedstock in microbial fermentation for SCP production and in precision fermentation as well as in plant cell cultivation. She has a long track record in plant biotechnology specifically in cell and tissue culture and in the biotechnological production of plant-derived secondary metabolites, recombinant proteins and lately also in upgrading plant cell cultures for food applications. Anneli has a PhD Pharm. degree and holds the Associate professorship at the University of Helsinki in pharmaceutical biology.
Magnus Carlquist
Magnus Carlquist is Professor in Applied Microbiology at the Division of Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology, Lund University, since 2024. He obtained a PhD in Applied Microbiology in 2008 at Lund University focusing on metabolic engineering of yeast for stereoselective bioconversion of bicyclic ketones to chiral alcohols. After a postdoc at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) where he studied yeast bioprocesses on a single cell level using flow cytometry, he returned to Lund and started exploration of yeasts and bacteria as catalysts for biosynthesis of natural products. He leads several research projects focusing on the development of microbial catalysts for sustainable biomanufacturing of products with applications in health, materials and food production.