I am a Sociologist with a focus on sustainable diets and food technologies.

I have been a Fulbright Fellow at UCLA (USA), DAAD Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), a Visiting Researcher at Shanghai University (China) and I am part of the Sustentarea project at the University of São Paulo (Brazil). As Sociologist I focus on sustainable diets and emerging food technologies in the context of planetary health. My previous research focused on intergenerational discussions on sustainable food consumption, especially meat consumption, from a comparative perspective in Brazil, China, USA, and Germany.

At Protein Matters I am exploring how cultured meat is being developed as a response to livestock’s zoonotic security matters.

Postdoctoral researcher at the Technische Universität Dresden

mariana.ueta@gmail.com