People
Research Team
Dr. Isabelle Lesschaeve, Ag. Eng., PhD
Director - Consumer Insights & Product Innovation
Vineland Research and Innovation Centre
Fellow of the Ontario Hostelry Institute
http://www.vinelandresearch.com
Dr. Lesschaeve is an agriculture engineer, trained in food science. She earned a PhD specialized in sensory evaluation of foodstuffs, from the University of Burgundy, France. For the last 20 years, Isabelle has worked in both public and private research environments, developing and applying her sensory expertise to new product developments and innovative methodologies predicting consumer preference.
Dr. Antonia Mantonakis, BSc, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor - Marketing, Brock University
Associate Faculty - Psychology, Brock University
Associate Fellow - CCOVI, Brock University
Associate Research Fellow - Vineland Research and Innovation Centre
Dr. Mantonakis’ research centres on understanding psychological factors that affect consumer memory: whether that is a nostalgic experience, or a recent experience. Her investigations, which use experiments, are attempts to understand the phenomenological aspects of remembering that are involved in both veridical and illusory memories.
Staff
Michele Moniz, B.A.Sc.
Sensory Analyst - Consumer Insights & Product Innovation
Vineland Research and Innovation Centre
http://www.vinelandresearch.com
Michele is a graduate of the Applied Human Nutrition program at the University Of Guelph, Ontario. She has also received a diploma in Culinary Arts from Liaison College in Burlington, Ontario. Michele is working with Dr. Isabelle Lesschaeve as the new Sensory Analyst for the Consumer Insights and Product Innovation Group.
Lab Group
Gulsum Aldemir, MSc candidate
Sarah Clemente, MSc candidate
Bryan Galiffi, BBA Co-op (Hon.) candidate
Jesse Howell, BA (Hon.) candidate
Matthew Philp, BBA Co-op (Hon.) candidate
Cassandra Price, BSc candidate
