Marta Zakrzewska wins national Junior Researcher award

The National committee for Psychology awards the best dissertation from all newly defended psychology dissertations in Sweden. This year, Marta Zakrzewska won with the dissertation ”Olfaction and prejudice: The role of body odor disgust sensitivity and disease avoidance in understanding social attitudes”. She did her PhD at the SCI-Lab with Jonas Olofsson as her main supervisor.

Her dissertation previously won the Department of Psychology’s (Stockholm university) best dissertation award. Today she works at RISE, after finishing a post doc at the Karolinska Institute.

The Committee motivation:

”Dr. Marta Zakrzewska tilldelas Nationalkommitténs pris till yngre forskare 2024 för sin imponerande och nyskapande forskning kring lukt och sociala fördomar. Med stor vetenskaplig noggrannhet och kreativ metodologisk bredd har Dr. Zakrzewska undersökt hur kroppsluktsaversion och sociala attityder samspelar inom ramen för det beteendemässiga immunsystemet. Genom att kombinera socialpsykologiska perspektiv med olfaktorisk forskning på ett unikt sätt har Dr. Zakrzewska belyst ett högaktuellt och originellt ämnesområde som både väcker nyfikenhet och har potential att intressera en bred publik.”

 

Marta Zakrzewska nails it! (her winning dissertation)

Murathan Kurfali receives Swedish Research Council grant

Murathan Kurfali has received 4.5 million sek, for the project ”Doftande AI? Integrering av lukt i stora språkmodeller” – Smelling AI? Integration of smell in Large Language Models!

Congratulations!

Murathan Kurfali

Department Days 2023, AI seminar

New publication about the language of Wine, Food and Perfume

Another study from the lab is published in Food Quality & Preference! On the basis of natural language in product reviews, this study compares and maps the semantic spaces of the chemosensory vocabularies of the wine, perfume and food product domains.

Thomas Hörberg and Murathan Kurfali have spearheaded this study. Find it here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2024.105357