Aspasia Werner was a GlobalFood member from 2017-2020. The information on this site reflects the status at the point of leaving GlobalFood.

Name

Aspasia Werner


Previous Field of Research

Product differentiation and consumer preferences
[Chair of Marketing for Food and Agricultural Products, Supervisor: Prof. Achim Spiller, Global Food Subproject B1)


Field of interest

Consumer behaviour, consumer preferences, experimental methods, cross-cultural approaches, alternative food lifestyles, consumer motivation analysis


Research interest

mental models of consumption behavior, mind development techniques (mindfulness), worldviews, alternative dietary lifestyles, choice/decision making dynamics


Education

• 2012 -- B.Sc. Agricultural Economics, University of applied sciences of Business and Environment Nürtingen-Geislingen; Germany
  Thesis: DRIFT-MIRS-based prediction of 137Cesium in soils of a semi-arid watershed in Morocco
• 2015 -- M.Sc. Sustainable International Agriculture, Georg-August-University Göttingen and University of Kassel-Witzenhausen; Germany
  Focus: International organic agriculture
  Thesis: Assessment of On-Farm, Market, and Wild Food Diversity in Three Agro-Ecological Zones of Western Kenya

Professional development

• 2014 - Tropentag Prag; Czechs Republic
  Poster presentation: Assessment of on-farm, market and wild food diversity in three different agro ecological zones of Western Kenya
• 2018 - SenseAsia; Malaysia
  Poster presentation: The Yoga of Sustainability. How spirituality and mindfulness affect consumer behavior.

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications or book chapters

• Werner, A., A. Spiller, S.G. Meyerding (2020). The yoga of sustainable diets: Exploring consumers mind and spirit. Journal of Cleaner Production 243, 118473.

Other publications

• Werner, A. (2020). Mental models of behavior change: Can mindfulness and spirituality support sustainable food consumption? PhD Thesis, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. University of Göttingen. http://hdl.handle.net/21.11130/00-1735-0000-0005-150B-8
• Werner, A., A. Spiller, S.G. Meyerding (2020). The yoga of sustainable diets: Exploring consumers mind and spirit. GlobalFood Discussion Paper 134. University of Goettingen. http://www.unigoettingen.de/de/213486.html

Languages

German (native), English (fluent), Spanish (advanced), Greek (basic)