Paul Smeets

Paul Smeets is senior scientist/associate professor at Wageningen University and the University Medical Center Utrecht. He trained in Behavioral Biology at Utrecht University. His PhD work, at the Image Sciences Institute (ISI), aimed at finding biomarkers of satiety in the human brain, using functional MRI. The central theme in his research is the decision to eat, which is taken in the brain on the basis of multiple neural as well as hormonal signals. Research topics include the neural correlates of taste, satiety and (un)healthy food choice, gut-brain interactions, functional neuroimaging in anorexia nervosa and using MRI to monitor gastric digestion.