We are hap­py to share that a doc­tor­al researcher in our lab has received a con­tin­u­a­tion grant to sup­port their work from Novem­ber 2025 to Novem­ber 2026. Build­ing on pre­vi­ous suc­cess­es, this fund­ing will allow the inves­ti­ga­tion of how uncon­scious sig­nals to the brain’s reward sys­tem affect food choic­es in our mod­ern, obe­si­ty-pro­mot­ing environment.

The research will focus on exam­in­ing com­bi­na­tions of macronutrients—specifically car­bo­hy­drates and fats—along with the impact of food pro­cess­ing on food moti­va­tion. By com­bin­ing food ques­tion­naires and behav­ioral tasks as prox­ies for food reward, this study aims to deep­en our under­stand­ing of how mod­ern diets influ­ence eat­ing behav­iors across indi­vid­u­als with vary­ing body mass indices (BMIs).

For addi­tion­al back­ground, please refer to last year’s announce­ment.

We warm­ly con­grat­u­late Arsene on this achieve­ment and look for­ward to the impor­tant insights their work will bring in the com­ing year.