Academic publications by our team.

Research is our passion.

Our team includes academics and researchers who continue to work at the forefront of sensory science, human-computer interaction, and neuroscience. Below is a selection of the work and publications which they have authored and co-authored.

Selected publications

Emanuela Maggioni

CEO/CTO & Co-Founder

Publications

  • Hsieh, J.W., Dougherty, M., Poulopoulou, A., Blidariu, D., Senn, P., Hopper, R., Patel, D., Maggioni, E., Obrist, M., Vosshall, L.B., Keller, A., Landis, B. (2026). SMELL-RS: A Self-administered, Digital Test for Olfactory Dysfunction that is Rapid, Reliable, and Accurate. Preprint on medRxiv: https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2026.03.28.26349316v1
  • Besevli, C., Brianza, G., Dawes, C., Mathur, S., Beganovic, S., Boak, D., Schieck, A., Lechner, M., Maggioni, E., Philpott, C., & Obrist, M. (2026). Digital Intervention for Smell Training: A Real-World Study on Engagement, Adherence, and Behavioural Dynamics. Rhinology Journal. DOI: 10.4193/Rhin25.290.
  • Hopper, R., Popa, D., Maggioni, E. et al. (2024). Multi-channel portable odor delivery device for self-administered and rapid smell testing. Communications Engineering, 3(1), 141.

Marianna Obrist

CSO & Co-Founder

Publications

Elena Calzolari

Researcher in Cognitive Neuroscience

Publications

  • Hadi, Z., Mahmud, M., Calzolari, E., Chepisheva, M., Zimmerman, K. A., Tahtis, V., … & Seemungal, B. M. (2025). Balance recovery and its link to vestibular agnosia in traumatic brain injury: a longitudinal behavioural and neuro-imaging study. Journal of Neurology, 272(2), 132.
  • Gatti, E., Calzolari, E., Maggioni, E., & Obrist, M. (2018). Emotional ratings and skin conductance response to visual, auditory and haptic stimuli. Scientific Data, 5(1), 1-12.

Christopher Dawes

Researcher & Future Leader Fellow

Publications

  • Besevli, C., Brianza, G., Dawes, C., Mathur, S., Beganovic, S., Boak, D., Schieck, A., Lechner, M., Maggioni, E., Philpott, C., & Obrist, M. (2026). Digital Intervention for Smell Training: A Real-World Study on Engagement, Adherence, and Behavioural Dynamics. Rhinology Journal. DOI: 10.4193/Rhin25.290.
  • Dawes, C., Xue, J., Brianza, G., Cornelio, P., Montano Murillo, R., Maggioni, E., & Obrist, M. (2024). ScentHaptics: Augmenting the Haptic Experiences of Digital Mid-Air Textiles with Scent. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (pp. 47-56).

Fahad Zia

AI / ML Lead

Publications

  • Zia, M. F., & Kalidass, S. H. (2024). Web Phishing Net (WPN): A scalable machine learning approach for real-time phishing campaign detection. In 2024 4th Intelligent Cybersecurity Conference (ICSC) (pp. 206-213). IEEE.
  • Zia, M. F., Kalidass, S. H., & Roscoe, J. F. (2023). SANTA: Semi-supervised adversarial network threat and anomaly detection system. In Artificial Intelligence XL: SGAI 2023 (pp. 335–349). Springer.

Richard Hopper

Senior Hardware Engineer

Publications

  • Hsieh, J.W., Dougherty, M., Poulopoulou, A., Blidariu, D., Senn, P., Hopper, R., Patel, D., Maggioni, E., Obrist, M., Vosshall, L.B., Keller, A., Landis, B. (2026). SMELL-RS: A Self-administered, Digital Test for Olfactory Dysfunction that is Rapid, Reliable, and Accurate. Preprint on medRxiv: https://medrxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2026.03.28.26349316v1
  • Hopper, R., Popa, D., Maggioni, E., Patel, D., Obrist, M., Landis, B. N., Hsieh, J. W., & Udrea, F. (2024). Multi-channel portable odor delivery device for self-administered and rapid smell testing. Communications Engineering, 3, Article 1.