Tendering for the European Sensory Network PhD Student Award 2013
January 10, 2013 - The European Sensory Network (ESN) will award one PhD student with the opportunity to attend the next meeting of the ESN, to be held in Verden, Germany, 25th -26th April, 2013.
The Award will provide travel expenses to and from the meeting, two night’s accommodation, and an evening meal with colleagues. The Award provides an excellent networking opportunity for students with leading scientists in their field. The recipient will be invited to provide a 30 min presentation of their PhD work to ESN members and industry partners, and to participate in a 1-day research theme workshop that will focus on dynamics of liking and preference.
The 2012 award is open to PhD students whose research addresses Dynamics of Liking. This may focus on underlying mechanisms for the changes in liking and preference over time, loss of liking and changed preference, or resistance to change. Factors may be biological, psychological, social and / or related to the environment. Research may address food, beverage, or non-food consumer products
The Award will be based upon an abstract of your work not exceeding 300 words, which should be accompanied by a letter of recommendation by your primary PhD supervisor. These documents should be sent by email no later that 8th February, 2013, to
Dr Conor Delahunty,
CSIRO Animal, Food and Health Sciences,
Email: conor.delahunty(at)csiro.au
[Tel: +61 8 8303 8972].
The ESN Research Committee will select the recipient.
Betina Piqueras-Fiszman winner of European Sensory Network PhD Student Award 2012
Betina Piqueras-Fiszman has been the winner of the 2012 European Sensory Network PhD Student Award. At that time she has been completing her PhD in Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford.
Betina’s topic was the contribution of multisensory design and cross-modal interactions in the food and beverage sector. Betina has a degree in design engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia. In recent years her curiosity has expanded to research in the fields of user-centred product and packaging design, sensory science, and cross-modal psychology/neuroscience. Combining her multidisciplinary knowledge, Betina’s current work aims to better understand the multisensory perception of food products in order to improve the overall consumer experience through informed design.
Betina attended the meeting of the European Sensory Network held in Aarhus, Denmark, 25th-26th April, 2012. She presented her work in a 30 minute talk to ESN members and industry partners. She also took part in a one-day research theme workshop that focused on cross-modal sensory interactions, and joined the ESN group for a dinner night.
The ESN Student Award provides students with excellent networking opportunities with leading scientists in their field.
Winners of ESN student grants for Rosemary Pangborn Symposium 2005
The ESN is awarding grants to a number of to a number of young scientists for their participation in the Rosmary Pangborn Symposium 2005, held in Harrogate (UK)
- Yvonne Blossfeld (Ireland):
Texture preferences of 12 months old infants and the role of early experiences - Karen Ann Hein (US)
Evaluation of descriptive analysis panel across attribute vs. across product
Sensory characterization of commercially available Hispanic cheeses - Juyun Lim (US)
Taste qualities of divalent salts - Céline Petit (UK)
The effects of flavour, colour and trigeminal interactions, congruency and exposure on the perception of cooling and flavour in model beverages - Nicolas Pineau (France)
Mining a database of sensory descriptive analyses to understand pannellist performances - Kari Russel (NZ)
Monotony in food products: influence of food complexity on consumer liking and choice over time - Derek Snyder (US)
Otitis media influences adult body mass via sex-specific changes in food preference
