Assistant Agro-food marketing and consumer behaviour
Department of Agricultural Economics
Ghent University
Coupure Links 653 Office A1.094 9000 Ghent
✉︎ fien.minnnes@ugent.be
✆ +32 9 264 59 25
BIO
Fien Minnens is an assistant at the Department of Agricultural Economics, since 2016. She holds an MSc Degree in Bioscience Engineering from Ghent University. Prior to starting her PhD journey, she worked for a Belgian NGO on a development education project. Her current research focuses on consumer perceptions on food integrity issues, such as food fraud and food scandals. As an assistant, she also tutors students for master dissertations, project work and assignments.
Research
Fien currently studies consumer and stakeholder perceptions on food integrity issues. She is active in the EU project:
FOODINTEGRITYwhere she studies stakeholders’ attitudes towards information sharing to prevent and detect food integrity issues.
Fien was also involved in the EU project:
ECsafeSEAFOODstudying consumers’ acceptance of an online tool on the risks and benefits of their seafood consumption.
