Reunion of Five Former PhD Students at the 2025 Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium
October 15, 2025
Five former PhD students of Dr. Witoon Prinyawiwatkul, Professor of Sensory Sciences, School of Nutrition and Food Sciences, LSU AgCenter had a reunion at the 16th Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium, in Philadelphia, USA on August 17-21, 2025.
Their professional profiles are as follows:
Full name: Karen Garcia
Graduation Date: May 2011
Current Job Title: Senior Manager – Sensory & Consumer Insights
Current Job and location: Symrise, North America
Full name: DAMIR DENNIS TORRICO
Graduation Date: August 2015
Current Job Title: Assistant Professor
Current job/employer and location: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, US
Previous Jobs: Senior lecturer at Lincoln University, New Zealand, and Post-doctoral fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia
Full name: Wisdom Wordui (formerly Wardy)
Graduation Date: August 2016
Current Job Title: Associate Principal Scientist
Current job/employer and location: L’Oréal USA/Clark, NJ
Previous Jobs: Sr. Quantitative UX Researcher/Meta Platforms/Menlo Park, CA; Scientist, Products Research/The JM Smucker Company/Orrville, OH
Full name: Pitchayapat Chonpracha
Graduation Date: May 2019
Current Job Title: Regional Consumer & Sensory Insight APAC
Current Job and location: dsm-firmenich, Singapore
Previous Job: Sensory Manager at McCormick (TH), General Manager at CPF (TH)
Full name: Silvia Murillo
Graduation Date: May 2025
Current Job Title: Senior Sensory Scientist – Innovation
Current Job and location: The Hershey Company, Pennsylvania
