Marieke van SchoonhovenEditorial Lead BIOMarieke van Schoonhoven is the Programme Manager and Editorial Lead at FoodUnfolded®. She has been part of the team since 2020. Marieke is a culinary refugee from the Netherlands and likes to tell people she moved to Belgium for her Master’s in Journalism back in 2011. She fell in love with the city of Antwerp and later with a Belgian guy. As she recently became a mother of two (2021 & 2024), she plans to prolong her stay for some decades. Linked to her personal experiences and backed by science, Marieke writes for FoodUnfolded about the importance of food in the first 1,000 days of life. However, she spends most of her time making FoodUnfolded the go-to place for everyone who wants to make food choices supporting a healthier and more sustainable food system. EXPERIENCEMarieke has a MA in Journalism from the Catholic University of Leuven. She worked as a journalist for the Belgian newspaper De Morgen and coordinated the personality magazine of a Belgian sexologist and tv presenter. After that, she set up and managed Eos Tracé at science magazine Eos (the Dutch-language partner of Scientific American). She’s written articles on food and sustainability, co-wrote a book about ‘food smart cities’ and gave talks on, among others, seaweed as food for the future, and how to choose sustainable food.