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EUROSENSE, Dijon 11-14 September, food but also cosmetics

EUROSENSE 2016

Unravelling the differences that matter: learning from innovating across markets and product categories by Ana Thomas, Unilever, UK

Dr Anna Thomas is Principal Scientist for Brain & Behaviour at Unilever R&D. She is responsible for the scientific quality and future direction of its exploratory research ranging from neuroscience to behaviour, ensuring Unilever’s long-term competitiveness. Anna joined Unilever in 1998 and has directed innovation projects spanning many different consumer targets, product categories and markets — including Brazil, Russia, India and China. She collaborates with leading universities in Europe and Asia and received public funding from Europe and the UK to explore the application of neuroimaging to scientific questions of fundamental importance to Unilever. Anna is also Visiting Professor at the Department of Food Engineering, EWHA Womans University, Seoul, Korea.

Others Speakers

Per Bruun Brockhoff, Danish Technical University, Denmark
Sensometrics: Statistics, psychometrics or chemometrics?
Sylvie Droit Volet, Clermont-Ferrand University, France
Our Sense of Time
Pierre Chandon, INSEAD, Paris, France
Pleasure, size, and food marketing: Can we make eaters happier to pay more for less?
Lisa Feldman Barrett, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Emotion inside out: From cartoon neuroscience to the predictive brain
Suzanne Higgs, University of Birmingham, UK
The role of food memories in food choice
Hal MacFie, Hal MacFie Training, UK
Sensory science has got to move on
Lisa Methven, University of Reading, UK
Age-related sensory perception and food behaviour
Kathrin Ohla, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany
Psychophysiological mechanisms of multisensory food perception