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NOSE happily congratulates Asifa Majid for winning prestigious Humboldt Research Award!
Professor Asifa Majid of the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University (UK) has been awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The Humboldt Research Award is given to internationally recognised researchers in recognition of their entire academic record to date. Asifa was one of ...
Astrid Groot is elected Vice President of the ICSE
News reached NOSE that last month, nose member Astrid Groot was elected vice president of the International Society of Chemical Ecology! We would like to congratulate Astrid with this exciting news and next step. From the ICSE newsletter: Astrid is an ISCE member since 1995 and has been active in ...
Smound
In 1862 Septimus Piesse coined the term 'smound' from 'smell' and 'sound'. he was convinced sounds influence the olfactory nerve and vice versa. he also created a 'gamut of odours' in which every musical note is connected to an olfactory note in order to create harmonious perfumes. Dr. Caro Verbeek ...
Een geurige museumnacht
Een geur herken je meteen, maar de woorden vinden om deze te omschrijven is vaak een stuk lastiger. In deze interactieve lezing op 6 juni in Leiden, Ars Aemula Naturae, neemt geuronderzoeker en NOSE lid Ilja Croijmans je mee in de fascinerende wereld van het reukvermogen. Ruik, kijk en ervaar ...
Public Lecture: The Chemistry Between Us – On Scents and Smell
In this public lecture (in Dutch), Jasper de Groot takes you into the surprising and often hidden world of scent. Our sense of smell may be the most underestimated sense we have. For a long time, we believed our nose played only a minor role - until COVID-19 and a ...
The Secret Power of Scents – Düsseldorf
In February, NOSE-member, Ekaterina Rzhevskaia together with Lena Trost, an artistic researcher from the Institute of Ceramic and Glass Art (IKKG) had the opportunity to visit an art exhibition “The Secret Power of Scents” ("Die geheime macht der Düfte") that combines a traditional visual art experience with olfactory immersion for ...
Sanne Boesveldt awarded Vici grant to study how smell influences health and eating behaviour
What and how well we smell may have a greater impact on our health and eating habits than we realise. With a €1.5 million Vici grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), NOSE member Sanne Boesveldt will spend the next five years investigating how the sense of smell ...
Interview met Garmt Dijksterhuis over anosmie
Waarom voelt de één met anosmie zich ‘patiënt’, terwijl de ander er nauwelijks last van heeft? Garmt Dijksterhuis, psycholoog en docent aan Maastricht University, deelt in dit interview zijn fascinerende inzichten over de verschillen in ervaring van reukverlies. Lees hier het volledige interview ...
