Dr. Mahya Tavan is a postdoctoral research fellow working on the development of the iOTA model in the Sustainable Nutrition Initiative®. iOTA is a dietary optimisation tool for designing sustainable diets that are nutritious, acceptable and affordable. Prior to joining SNi®, Mahya held a research role at the University of Melbourne, Australia where she carried out various research projects on sustainable food production, resource use efficiency and biofortification of fresh food.
Dr. Nick Smith works as a mathematical modeller for Sustainable Nutrition Initiative®. He is responsible for a wide range of SNi work and the continued development of the models like the DELTA Model®. This is a tool for investigating how global food production meets global nutritional requirements as part of a sustainable food system. Prior to this, he built models to understand dynamics in the human intestinal microbiome.