Alice Drew.
French/British researcher, consultant & teacher based in Barcelona.
She works between disciplines exploring how humans experience the world through their senses, with a particular interest in the sense of smell. Her research has spanned lab-based experiments on visual illusions, as well as applied multisensory research in food & flavour and how the brain responds to cinema. She has collaborated on designing multisensory experiences and delivers workshops on the neuroscience of perception applied to various fields such as architecture, design and wellbeing. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy & Modern Languages from the University of Oxford (UK) and a MSc and PhD in cognitive neuroscience from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain).
Beyond neuroscience, she is passionate about social impact and since 2025 has been working as a training consultant, demystifying AI for European non-profits through in-person and online workshops in French, English, Spanish and Italian. Recent collaborations include DesCodeuses, Diversidays, Apadrinaunolivo, European Forum for Urban Security, ICLEI & others.
Alice is a co-creator of WHIFF - an educational board game focused on smell & crossmodal perception.
