Based in Paris, FR

Electronics Engineer (ECE) and after 5 years of research in Neuroscience, oncologists came to me to create a device to measure taste sensitivity for their patients on cancer treatment who report this symptom very often. I then turned to a CNRS team to create with them a state-of-the-art electrogustometer. Excited by the positive feedback from the world of Research and Hospital on the first prototype, 2022 will be the year of the industrialization of the product to make it available to health professionals to advance knowledge on taste disorders and help in the care of patients who suffer from it.

Doctor in psychobiology and Agroparistech engineer, I have always been passionate about the link between food and health. I did my thesis at the University of Leeds (UK) on the role of food rewards (pleasure and motivation to eat) in weight loss and obesity. I was thus able to improve the tool for measuring food preferences and more implicit motivations (Leeds Food Preferences Questionnaire: LFPQ) and show its usefulness beyond an academic application. My project to develop an online application of this tool for researchers and health professionals came to fruition with the meeting of Pierre Antoine because the measures of taste and food pleasure are closely linked.