Episode 329: Culture beyond Time and Space series: Wen Chen

Wen Chen, a food scientist.  The path to practice as a professional food scientist took 12 years from China to Finland.  After the Master degree in Food sciences in Helsinki University, her will to go back home became diminished.  She decided to continue her academy career in the PhD study in Phsical Chemistry.  After the study, she was unemployed.  Luckily her will to stay continued with the postdoc place in the familiar campus in Chemistry.  When the project ended, instead of getting unemployed she opened a Cafe in Kallio, Helsinki.  Then the corona came, the business went down.  This time an angel stays with her.  A friend of hers came with a hope to work in a start-up food company.  When people got lucked down at home, she went to her familiar environment - the laboratory.  Her perspectives to foods open from the chinese tradition to the finnish contemporary innovations to food materials.  Let’s travel together with Wen Chen’s food world beyond time and space.