Stefan Wahlen is professor of Food Sociology at Giessen University. Current research focusses on food culture and eating in the sense of doing food, as well as organisational and socio-political dimensions of food. In the FOOdIVERSE project, he is leader of Work Package 1 (project management). Also, he is member of the steering committee of the „Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative” in Europe (SCORAI-Europe) and editor of the newly established journal „Consumption and Society”, forthcoming 2022 published by Bristol University Press.