Rate My Professor Hanna Tuomisto

Tuomisto’s research centers on sustainable food systems, with expertise in life cycle assessment, sustainable farming systems, carbon footprinting, cellular agriculture, and novel foods. She has been assessing the environmental impacts of cell-cultured foods, such as cultivated meat, since 2008 and leads multidisciplinary projects evaluating sustainability across livestock production, plant-based proteins, dietary changes, vertical farming, and novel technologies. Her contributions advance consequential impact assessments often overlooked in traditional methods. Key publications include “A systematic review of sustainable food systems identifies socio-economic pathways driving food systems transformations” (2026, Nature Food), “Discretionary foods have notable environmental and expenditure relevance across meat and plant protein preferences” (2026, npj science of food), “Improving the carbon footprint assessment of milk production: a case study integrating soil carbon stock changes with eddy covariance and DeNitrification-DeComposition model” (2026, International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment), and earlier works like “Environmental impacts of cultivated meat” and “Climate Impacts of Cultured Meat and Beef Cattle” (2019). Tuomisto supervises doctoral programmes in Food Chain and Health, Interdisciplinary Environmental Sciences, and Sustainable Use of Renewable Natural Resources, has served as opponent and pre-examiner for dissertations, and delivered over 55 invited talks, including keynotes on cultivated meat impacts. In 2022, she received the Research Achievement Award.