Professor
Professor Charles Spence is a world-famous experimental psychologist with a specialization in neuroscience-inspired multisensory design. He has worked with many of the world’s largest companies across the globe since establishing the Crossmodal Research Laboratory (CRL) at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University in 1997. Prof. Spence has published over 1,100 academic articles and edited or authored, 16 books including, in 2014, the Prose prize-winning “The perfect meal”, and the international bestseller “Gastrophysics: The new science of eating” (2017; Penguin Viking) – winner of the 2019Le Grand Prix de la Culture Gastronomique from Académie Internationale de la Gastronomie. His latest book Sensehacking was published in 2021.
Much of Prof. Spence’s work focuses on the design of enhanced multisensory food and drink experiences, through collaborations with chefs, baristas, mixologists, chocolatiers, perfumiers, and the food and beverage, and flavour and fragrance industries. Prof. Spence has worked extensively in the world of multisensory experiential wine and coffee and has also worked extensively on the question of how technology will transform our dining/drinking experiences in the future.
See short video at: Charles Spence – Sensploration (FoST 2016). https://vimeo.com/170509976.
And profile at: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/02/accounting-for-taste.
“The Perfect Meal” | Talks at Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgUVjKsP_wc
AEG Tasteology: http://www.aeg.co.uk/taste/inspiration/tasteology/
Neurocuisine, The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/video/2016/may/23/neuro-cuisine-exploring-the-science-of-flavour-video
Multisensory Experience and Coffee – RecoSymposium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVKabsudi1I
Unexpected connections — pleasure and pain: Charles Spence at TEDxUHasselt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVt-QrNFZso
Flavour Sense Nation short videos: Prof. Charles Spence – Flavour SenseNation
http://flavoursense.com/ask-the-scientist/prof-charles-spence
Entomophagy in our world, TEDxCityUniversityLondon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQEX-kMpz-4
Shitsukan (2019) Japan https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoDvHIx6ItiODbZgBWEDbWCC-N3h8hW9o
Cambridge Biological Society: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dZSlSuRs34
Spence Bar Academy Bulgaria https://www.facebook.com/BarAcademyBulgaria/videos/gastrophysics-a-multisensory-approach-to-cocktails-by-prof-charles-spencesofiaba/361034184762577/
Spence LSE Gastrophysics talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB_B9hfsNXI
Spence Going Underground TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56e5UZJreg0
For multisensory packaging video, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV3SRKFpEsg
Nuffield Triannual Food Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePguEqCJ7Ks
http://www.blog.generalmills.com/2016/09/podcast-making-food-your-five-senses-will-love/
See also: BBC SERIES – The Uncommon Senses; Series 1 Dinnertime: A Multisensory Extravaganza! https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b08k5zqw