Latest Sensoryscience Podcast Episodes

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Michael Hautus - The Symphony of Sensory Psychophysics

AigoraCast - March 22, 2024 15:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Michael Hautus is an internationally recognized expert in quantitative and experimental psychology. As a professor at the University of Auckland School of Psychology, he specializes in sensory and perceptual systems research, cognitive modelling, and analyzing detection and discrimination judgme...

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Tzvi Wiesel - Blockchain Barrels: How I “Tokenize” Whiskies

AigoraCast - January 26, 2024 18:11 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Tzvi Wiesel is an experienced whisky investor and trader, focused on fine and rare bottles and casks. He is the Founder and CEO of BAXUS, a marketplace for trading high-end wine and spirits, powered by blockchain technology. Tzvi got his start in the spirits industry initially by accident, when ...

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Dr. Parvaneh Parvin - Spice it up with Tech

AigoraCast - November 01, 2023 11:59 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Parvaneh Parvin is a tech-savvy problem solver with a flair for all things culinary. She studied Digital Humanities and Computer Science at the University of Pisa in Italy, where she also earned her PhD in her research into Just-in-time health feedback systems for older adults with mild cognit...

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Julia Christiane Sick - Emotions, Traits, and Tiny Taste Testers

AigoraCast - October 16, 2023 19:15 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Julia has recently joined SAM Sensory and Consumer Research as Research Manager, Germany. Before joining SAM, Julia graduated with a doctoral degree in Food Science & Technology from the University of Florence. Her research focused on the role of emotions, personality traits, and sensory sensiti...

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Gern Huijberts - Stay Curious and Be Brave

AigoraCast - October 02, 2023 15:56 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Gern Huijberts is the global innovation portfolio manager at Cargill, with responsibility for businesses in Europe, the US, Brazil, West-Africa, and Asia-Pacific. In this position, he manages the global quality organization for food safety, quality assurance and quality control as well as regu...

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Vijay Pravin Maharajan - A Tradable Future

AigoraCast - September 26, 2023 18:22 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Vijay Pravin is the Founder & CEO of bitsCrunch, a Blockchain Analytics and Forensics company focusing on securing the NFT ecosystem. Living in Munich, Germany for the last 10 years, and originally from India.    To date, Vijay has helped raise 6.5M USD from prominent Web3 VCs like Coinbase...

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Lennox Matsinde - Don’t Miss Out Loyalty in Web3

AigoraCast - August 21, 2023 17:45 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Lennox is the CEO & Co-Founder of Satoshi’s Index, a token-gated SaaS platform that automates portfolio management for crypto investors. In addition to this, he leads product initiatives at Starbucks Corp, and is the co-founder of NFT Seattle, the region's first large scale Web3 conference. ...

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Luiza Carvalho - The Future is Digital

AigoraCast - July 26, 2023 14:51 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Luiza is the International Sensory Science Manager at L’Oréal France.  She is a Food Engineer with more than 10 years of experience in Sensory and Consumer Science applied mainly in cosmetics, food, and household product categories.  She has recently been assigned the Data Steward role, bein...

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Dr. Garmt Dijksterhuis - The Science of Validity

AigoraCast - March 17, 2023 15:46 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Dr. G.B. (Garmt) Dijksterhuis studied experimental psychology and methodology at the University of Utrecht and wrote his Ph.D. dissertation at the department of Data Theory at the University of Leiden, in the Netherlands. He has written or co-authored some 150 publications in sensory and consum...

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Carlos Velasco - Looking at the Big Picture

AigoraCast - December 07, 2022 15:34 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Carlos Velasco is an associate professor at the Department of Marketing, BI Norwegian Business School (Norway), where he co-founded the Centre for Multisensory Marketing. Carlos received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from Oxford University, after which he worked on a number of postdoctora...

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Carlos Gómez–Corona - Embrace Psychology

AigoraCast - October 19, 2022 15:50 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Carlos Gómez–Corona is the Director Human Insights & Sensory at Firmenich. His main responsibilities are to understand the future consumption of proteins, and the perception of natural and sustainable flavors and ingredients. He has conducted research both in academia and the industry, as well a...

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Mindy Yang - A Personalized Future

AigoraCast - September 14, 2022 15:18 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Founder of a New York-based brand incubator, Mindy Yang is an advisor, investor, growth hacker, curator, and technical designer & creative director of fragranced, flavored, and functional products.   As an expert on sensory sciences, psychology, marketing, brand strategy, wellness, and immer...

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Nat Cole - For Every Reality

AigoraCast - March 18, 2022 16:29 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Nat Cole is a cryptocurrency and blockchain educator and consultant, working in the crypto & blockchain space for around 5 years.  He is currently working on a 'Phygital' NFT Fashion project, mixing high-quality fashion design, sustainable materials, Web3, and embedded technologies.   Nat’s ...

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Nese Yurttas - Alternative Reality

AigoraCast - February 22, 2022 12:06 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Nese Yurttas has worked in the field of sensory and consumer science for twenty years including the past fifteen years for Cargill, where she has built Cargill’s sensory capabilities in North America into a world-class capability. Nese leads a global community of sensory practice to build best pr...

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Michelle Niedziela & Kathryn Ambroze - Let Go

AigoraCast - February 16, 2022 17:40 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Dr. Michelle Niedziela is a behavioral neuroscientist experienced in both academia and industry.  Michelle began her career as a post-doctoral fellow at Monell Chemical Senses Center working on research of functional foods. She continued her career at Johnson & Johnson where she specialized in in...

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Amber Case - Get on the Playground

AigoraCast - February 08, 2022 10:51 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Amber Case studies the interaction between humans and computers and how technology is changing everyday life.  Case is currently a 2021 Mozilla Fellow working on the future of money, alternative business models for the web, and creator compensation.  Case is an internationally recognized design a...

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Gern Huijberts - Stay Curious

AigoraCast - January 17, 2022 15:44 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Gern Huijberts is the global quality director for Cargill Cocoa and Chocolate, with responsibility for businesses in Europe, the US, Brazil, West-Africa and Asia-Pacific. In this position, he manages the global quality organization for food safety, quality assurance and quality control as well a...

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Vanessa Rios de Souza - Be Open

AigoraCast - January 10, 2022 15:28 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Dr. Vanessa Rios de Souza holds a Ph.D. in Food Science and has over 10 years of experience in R&D, consumer and sensory research across multiple food product categories and functions, with a strong background in food science and food processing. She has extensive experience in industrial, acade...

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Ruth Brown - Beware the Jingle Jangle

AigoraCast - December 27, 2021 16:44 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Dr. Ruth Brown is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University and an expert practitioner of state-of-the-art data science tools and the founder of the HOPE Lab. She is also the Co-Fo...

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Keir Finlow-Bates - A Non-Fungible Future

AigoraCast - December 21, 2021 15:35 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Keir Finlow-Bates is the author of "Move Over Brokers: Here Comes The Blockchain" (https://mybook.to/moveover), the founder of Chainfrog Limit (one of Finland's earliest blockchain startups), and a prolific inventor of blockchain technologies with 43 patents to his name. Becoming interested in...

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Dr. Tian Yu - No Limits

AigoraCast - November 23, 2021 10:48 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Dr. Tian Yu is a Computational Sensory Science Consultant at Aigora. Tian holds a Ph.D. in taste neuroscience, focusing on signal transduction. After a postdoctoral fellowship researching brain lipid metabolism, and an instructor role delving into sour taste sensing, Dr. Yu devoted herself to se...

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Jean Storlie & Mimi Sherlock - Tap into the Power of Story

AigoraCast - November 16, 2021 12:11 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
As President/Owner of Storlietelling Jean uses story-based techniques to design and facilitate highly engaging strategic planning, innovation, and team-building sessions. She also runs training programs in business storytelling skills for clients that span boutique consulting firms to Fortune 50...

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Julien Delarue - Sensory at the Center

AigoraCast - November 09, 2021 15:15 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Dr. Delarue’s research focuses on methods to measure sensory perception and preferences and on their effective use in food design. He seeks to develop high validity consumer-oriented methods. In particular, his research explores the role of context in hedonic measures using immersive environment...

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Nicolas Hartmann - Try Something New

AigoraCast - October 21, 2021 15:17 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Nicolas Hartmann is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Vly. Based in Berlin, the FoodTech startup aims to disrupt the dairy industry by developing novel alternatives using food science, fermentation, and data. Nicolas holds a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford and is passionate a...

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Bo Li - Finding the Why

AigoraCast - September 10, 2021 17:08 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Bo Li is currently a Senior Behavioral Scientist at Dell Technologies where he leverages behavioral science to create better customer experiences for consumers who shop for Dell products online. Previously, Bo was a Behavioral Economist at Eli Lilly & Company where Bo conducted behavioral scienc...

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Dawn Chapman - Re-thinking Sensory

AigoraCast - August 30, 2021 09:27 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Dawn is a skilled Sensory and Consumer Scientist with 15+ years of hands-on experience designing, executing, and interpreting multi-faceted research studies to solve business challenges. She is passionate about exploring data sets to make stories come to life.   Dawn studied mathematics and ...

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Daniel Protz - Outside In

AigoraCast - August 18, 2021 10:29 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Daniel Protz is the Founder & CEO of FlavorWiki. He holds a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Stanford Business School. Daniel started his career in computer-driven commodity trading before moving into the e-commerce and digital industries. Since 2015, Daniel has been work...

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Benjamin Cabé - On the Edge

AigoraCast - August 02, 2021 14:21 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Benjamin is a technology enthusiast with a passion for empowering developers to build innovative solutions. A long-time open source advocate, he co-founded the Eclipse IoT Working Group in 2011 and grew, from scratch, a vibrant open-source community of hundreds of developers and dozens of deeply...

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Helene Hopfer - Using New Tools

AigoraCast - July 20, 2021 14:57 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
Dr. Helene Hopfer is the Rasmussen Career Development Professor and Assistant Professor of Food Science at Penn State where her research group studies product- and human-inherent factors that affect perception. Her research focuses on the human-food interface, and how food composition and food s...

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John Fuisz - Forest for the Trees

AigoraCast - July 08, 2021 14:42 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 15 ratings
John Fuisz is the CEO of Veriphix.  John has a diverse background, with an undergraduate degree in Physics from Georgetown, a JD from Catholic University, a Legal Masters from George Washington.  John was previously a board member at Fuisz Technologies, a drug delivery company that helped origin...

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