Hanni Rützler

Hanni Rützler
Hanni Rützler, 2006.
Born	9 February 1962 Bregenz
Residence	Vienna and Primmersdorf
Nationality	Austrian
Alma mater	University of Vienna
Occupation	Nutritional scientist, food trends researcher and health psychologist
Spouse(s)	Wolfgang Reiter

Hanni Rützler (born 9 February 1962) is an Austrian nutritional scientist, food trends researcher, author and health psychologist.

Hanni Rützler was born in 1962 in Bregenz, the capital of Vorarlberg. She received her secondary education at the Sacré-Coeur in Bregenz, obtaining her Matura in 1981. After a one-year study visit in the United States at Michigan Technological University, Houghton, she began studying home economics and nutritional sciences, psychology and sociology, as well as food and biotechnology at the University of Vienna (completed as Master of Natural Sciences in 1988). Aside from an apprenticeship in person-centered interviewing (completed in 1991), she was an associate at the interdisciplinary research project "Ernährungskultur in Österreich" ("Nutritional Culture in Austria") at the Institut für Kulturstudien (IKUS). Since then, she has been working as a freelance nutritional scientist, a consultant of food & beverage enterprises and a food trends researcher.

Rützler is the founder and leader of the futurefoodstudio in Vienna. She authors reference books and has been an advisor at the Zukunftsinstitut ("Future Institute") of Matthias Horx in Frankfurt am Main since 2004.

Rützler is a frequent speaker at international meetings and conferences (for example in Berlin, Zürich, Johannesburg and Dubai), as a workshop and seminar leader as well as a nutrition expert on the radio, on television and in written media.

She is the co-founder of the Verband der Ernährungswissenschafter Österreichs (VEÖ, "Association of Nutritional Scientists of Austria") and was from 1999 until 2005 the vice-president of the Österreichische Gesellschaft für Ernährung (ÖGE, "Austrian Society for Nutrition"). She was a lecturer at the Medical University of Graz (college course Public Health) and is a member of numerous scientific advisory committees (VEÖ, Forum Ernährung heute, Denkwerk Zukunft, amongst others).