The researcher of the department of Food Science and Physiology and research center in Nutrition (CIN), in the Personalized Nutrition Line, Eva Almirón Roig, has made an Erasmus + stay at high school Paul Bocuse and at the Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine-Rhône-Alpes (CRNHRhône-Alpes (affiliated to the University Lyon 1), considered as a European center of reference letter in the human nutritional research .

The goal of his stay has been to meet the researcher team and to visit the facilities of both the PB and the CRNH, partner center of the CIN in a recently funded European project .

In addition, the specialist of the School Pharmacy and Nutrition has been updated on new technological and scientific developments in the area of eating behavior. In particular, on cognitive measures and sensory aspects of eating, satiety and metabolism. In addition, he expanded his knowledge on the functioning of the network ECRIN Nutrition, updated his network contacts, gave a scientific talk to PB and CRNH researchers and presented a poster of his work at an international symposium on eating behavior organized by the high school PB.

"One of the laboratories I visited was the Living Restaurant at high school PB, a state-of-the-art facility for the analysis of eating behavior. It is an experimental restaurant where you can study the eating behavior of diners in a "real" setting, in a non-intrusive way, while at the same time you can control the environmental conditions (light, smells, sounds, etc.) and structural conditions (buffet layout or separate tables) of the restaurant". "Also", adds Eva Almirón, "I value very positively the attendance to the symposium organized by the same center, where I coincided with experts in food psychology from around the world and where I could disseminate the research that we carry out at the University with the use of emerging technologies for the study and modification of eating behavior". "In both centers our research was very well received and valued as innovative and of high interest", culminates the CIN scientist.

The symposium was also attended by other academic centers, such as the universities of Lyon, Liverpool and Wageningen, as well as food-related companies such as Danone, Nestlé and Mondelez International.