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

Associate 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

 

Nicolas Mathieu, MPro, Sensory analyst

 

Jenna Gilchrist, BA, Technical assistant

 

Lab Group

 

Randi Beckett, Undergraduate Thesis Student

 

Amy Bowen, Postdoctoral Fellow

 

Lindsey Cary, Research Assistant

 

Sarah Clemente, MSc Candidate

 

Bryan Galiffi, BBA Co-op (Hon.)

 

Matthew Philp, BBA Co-op (Hon.)

 

Kirk Stokes, PhD Candidate

 

Karolina Walczyk, Research Assistant

 

Jenny Wu, MSc Candidate

 

Liliane Zoungrana, Postdoctoral Fellow