The European Sensory Science Society is pleased to announce the winners of the E3S Eurosense Student Awards 2026.
The E3S Eurosense Student Award Committee thanks all the students that applied and congratulate them on the extremely high level of the extended abstracts submitted.
There are four awards, one of which is dedicated to Pieter Punter.
The winners:
Chiara Chirilli, University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo, Italy
E3S EuroSense Student Awards 2026 dedicated to Pieter Punter
“Thermal Taster Status and oral perception: Integrating Taste, Temperature, Texture, and Food Choices”
Sofia Trentanove, University of Florence, Italy
E3S EuroSense Student Awards 2026
“A new gamified tool to explore food preference patterns in children with varied levels of food neophobia”
Pedro Manuel Sousa, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, Portugal
E3S EuroSense Student Awards 2026
“How evaluation context shapes vocal behaviour during food consumption: Speech as an implicit marker of consumer experience”
Holly Giles, University of Reading, UK
E3S EuroSense Student Awards 2026
“Age-associated differences in saliva and their relationship with textural perception of whey protein drinks”