Aviaja Lyberth Hauptmann is an Inuk [Inuit from Greenland] microbiologist (University of Copenhagen 2012) with specialty in Arctic metagenomics. After acquiring her Ph.D. in metagenomics from the Technical University of Denmark, she moved back to Greenland to lead the research project The Greenland Diet Revolution at the University of Greenland. The project is focused on understanding the microbial importance of Indigenous Greenlandic foods prepared in nature. Currently Aviaja is a postdoctoral fellow at the Marco Lab at UC Davis, where she is researching Indigenous fermented foods from Greenland and the Greenland gut microbiome.