Dr. Francesca Zampollo

Dr. Francesca Zampollo is a Design and Food Design researcher, consultant, teacher, and keen public speaker. Francesca founded the Online School of Food Design© (onlineschooloffooddesign.org) in 2016, and she now works as a consultant and as a teacher bringing the Food Design Thinking methodology to companies and individuals. She is the founding editor of the International Journal of Food Design, the first and only academic journal of Food Design, the founder of the International Food Design Society, and she organised the first, second, and third International Conferences on Food Design. Francesca earned a PhD in Design Theory applied to Food Design in 2014 and she taught Food Design and Design Theory at London Metropolitan University and Auckland University of Technology as a full-time lecturer and researcher. For the last eight years, Francesca worked on developing the Food Design Thinking methodology, as a food-specific branch of Design Thinking (fooddesignthinking.org).