Armando Perez-Cueto

Short presentation

Armando Perez-Cueto, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Design and Consumer Behaviour Section and is responsible of the teaching module Food Consumer Research at MSc Level, and in English Language. This course is part of the Food Innovation and Health Master Program. As beneficiary of Eramsus+ Staff Mobility grants he is guest lecturer at the University of Porto, Portugal.

His research focus is on consumers, food related behaviours, plant-based consumption and how to facilitate healtheir,  sustainable and ethical food choices.

Since his appointment at UCPH, he is involved in several national and international research collaborations, such as ELDORADO, CALM or the two EU funded Marie Curie Projects, namely VeggiEAT and FoodSMART, and has previously participated in other EU funded projects such as DAFNE III, Q-PorkChains and Eatwell. 

Primary fields of research

• Food Consumer Research
• Choice Architecture & Nudging
• Plant-based consumption
• Healthy Ageing
• Nutritional Epidemiology

CV

Armando Perez-Cueto, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Design and Consumer Behaviour Section and is responsible of the teaching module Food Consumer Research at MSc Level, and in English Language.

Previously, he was the Associate Professor of Public Health Nutrition at Aalborg Universitet’s Campus also in Copenhagen. He has been visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Food and Nutrition Sciences (FCNAUP) of Porto University yearly since 2011.

He was Leader of 2 Work Packages for the FP7 VeggiEAT Project (Industry Academy Partnership Pathways-Marie Curie/EU grant agreement # 612326), and leads other 2 Work Packages for the H2020 FoodSMART project (a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE) project/EU grant agreement #643999). In 2014 he was Principal Investigator of the Danish-Brazilian Network ELIGEBIEN (supported by the Danish Ministry of Education and Innovation Funds/Grant #1370-00005B), and in 2015 of the Danish-USA Network uCare (Grant 4070-00161B), both dealing with choice architecture as a tool for public health nutrition.

During his career he was part of several EU Funded projects, namely, DAFNE (Data Food Networking), EATWELL, Q-PorkChains, ProSafeBeef, and he has been member of the Sino-Nordic Network Food4Growth (Nordic Council of Ministers).

Originally a Food Engineer from UNIVALLE, Bolivia, he received his postgraduate qualifications from Ghent University, namely a PhD in Applied Biological Sciences, a MSc in Rural Development Economics, and a Diploma in Food Science & Nutrition. He has consolidated a multi-disciplinary research approach around different aspects of food and health, including postdoctoral work combining nutrition and consumer research. Presently, the focus of his research is on the role that choice architecture (nudging) could play in supporting healthier eating at population level.

He is author (or co-author) of 60+ original articles (h-index 19: Scopus), co-editor of 1 book, and member of the Editorial Boards of Nutricion Hospitalaria (Comité Editorial Iberoamericano), Revista Chilena de Nutrición, South African Journal of Family Ecology and Consumer Sciences and Perspectives in Public Health. He enjoys sharing conversations and interchange of ideas with young researchers and students.

Teaching

Course Responsible

• Food Consumer Research NFOK16000 (MSc FIH). 
• Innovation Towards Plant-Based Consumption (PhDCourse)
• Public Health Nutrition (MSc-IFS)
• Meal Science and Technology (MSc-IFS)

Responsible of the following lectures/modules at Determinants of Food Consumption(MSc) on

• Conducting Systematic Reviews (Lecture)
• Public Health Nutrition (Module)

Responsible of one teaching module for Sensory Evaluation of Foods (BSc). 

Participated as lecturer and co-instructor at the PhD course Sensory Evaluation and Food Preferences

• Perspectives on consumer-centred research
• Future perspectives on sensory and consumer evaluation