👃🌎 Does the world care about smell? | Featuring Valentina Palma PhD & Jonas Yde Junge PhD | MindSet Episode #84
Description
Kathryn and Michelle are joined by two researchers who are trying to figure out how the world feels about their sense of smell. Valentina Palma and Jonas Yde Junge are scientists at Monell Chemical Senses Center who teamed up with researchers from Brown University and HCD Research to explore global trends around olfaction. In this episode, Kathryn and Michelle chat with them about the survey, smell tests, and what the future holds for research on smells.
#olfaction #WTSD #smell
Meet our guests!
Valentina Parma is the Assistant Director of the Monell Chemical Senses Center, the only non-profit organization devoted to the study of smell and taste. She is a psychologist interested in human olfaction across the lifespan. Her basic and translational research both aim to find ways to use smell to improve health. Lately, she has been working at the development and validation of a rapid smell test called SCENTinel.
Jonas Yde Junge is Postdoctoral Fellow at Monell Chemical Senses Center where he does research related to human olfaction and taste. He received his Ph.D. from the Food Science Department at Aarhus University in Denmark which focussed on taste interactions.
Extra Information:
WTSD Survey: https://www.tasteandsmell.world/#:~:text=What%20is%20World%20Taste%20%26%20Smell,senses%20of%20taste%20and%20smell.
Monell Chemical Senses Center: https://monell.org/scientists/
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