Speakers

Prof Joanne Hort

Fonterra Riddet Chair Sensory Science

Prof Hort, Fonterra-Riddet Chair in Consumer and Sensory Science at Massey University, is an internationally renowned sensory scientist. She is also Principal Investigator and Associate Director at the Riddet Institute. Her research focuses on a multidisciplinary approach to understanding factors affecting consumer perception of food and their consequent choice behaviours, and developing effective methods to measure them.  Her interests include individual differences in sensory perception, cross-cultural differences and the impact of context on perception, especially concerning emotional response to foods. She is Director of Feast, the Food Experience and Sensory Testing Lab, a future facing Consumer and Sensory Science Centre at Massey’s Manawatu Campus, developed to support the food industry, large and small, to apply a consumer-led approach to ensure improved product success. Professor Hort has over 130 research publications and is co-author and editor of several key texts in Sensory Science.  She is associate editor for the Q1 journal Food Quality and Preference and is a director of the global Pangborn Sensory Science Trust.  She is a Fellow of the UK Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST) and Member of NZIFST . She is a founder member and past Chair of the European Sensory Science Society.