HAUPTMANN Aviaja

graduated as a biologist at the University of Copenhagen in 2013 and obtained a PhD in microbial metagenomics in 2017 from the Technical University of Denmark. In 2017, she became leader of the Greenland Diet Revolution project from the University of Greenland in Nuuk, where she was born. Her research revolves around the value of the Inuit diet from a microbial perspective, and approaches microbiome research from an indigenous perspective in a context of food sovereignty and health in the Arctic. Currently she is a grantee of the Carlsberg Foundation leading a research project at UC Davis and the University of Greenland in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen on microbiomes and metabolites of fermented Inuit foods.