Dr
Simone Mueller
Simone’s research
focuses on consumers' food purchase
behaviour. Her recent research projects
examine food choice drivers for wine,
seafood and meat. Her area of expertise is
food choice, wine marketing, consumer
sensory preferences and modelling consumer
heterogeneity.
Simone is Chief Investigator and Project Manager
of a Grape and Wine Research and Development
Corporation (GWRDC) funded
wine marketing project
'Determining the relative importance to wine
consumers of sensory and non-sensory
attributes on liking and choice: a
cross-cultural study' to develop a method
for the prediction of consumer's wine
choices on international wine markets.
She has also managed and contributed to projects
for a diverse range of clients such as the Wine
Makers’ Federation of Australia (WFA), Food
Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ),
Marine Innovation of South Australia (MISA),
Primary Industries of South Australia (PIRSA),
Meat and Livestock Australia, and others.
Simone has a PhD in Economics from the Technical
University of Dresden analysing consumer
preferences for the country of origin of
sparkling wine in Germany. Before joining
the Institute Simone was a research fellow and
senior lecturer for wine economics and market
research at Geisenheim Research Center. Simone
won the Early Career Researcher Special
Commendation 2010 from the Division of Business
at UniSA and was the Outstanding Paper Award
Winner of the Emerald Literati Network Awards for
Excellence for her publication in the
International Journal of Wine Business Research.
To view Simone’s publications list,
click
here.
