Coordinate a project focusing on novel antimicrobial food packaging and coating materials

Bursa Technical University was established in 2010. The university is located in Bursa where is the 4th big city in Turkey close to Istanbul and Ankara. The city is ranked 28th in the world and 1st in Turkey in the 2016 World Livable Cities ranking. The vision of Bursa Technical University is to become a global university who meet the expectations of its partners regarding knowledge, technology, social and artistic value production and of making these values useable. Based on the vision, the mission is to educate our students so they can produce research, knowledge, technology, social and artistic value and develop the skill to apply what they have produced to real life and in this way become individuals who can shape the future.

The university consist of 6 faculty including Engineering and Natural Sciences, Forestry, Humanities an Social Sciences, Architecture and Design, Marine Science and Communication. Bursa Technical University continues to progress decisively and rapidly towards becoming a modern science center that carries out education and R&D studies according to the needs of the industry, whose graduates are highly preferred, which has become a brand in its fields of education and produces solutions.

As to be a part of university, the Food Engineering Department consists of 9 academicians and 6 research assistans. Recently, 3 research projects supported by THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF TURKEY (TUBITAK), 2 projects supported by Republic f Turkey Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and several scientific projects supported by Bursa Technical Universtiy have been carried out. In addition, a new project is in progress at our department focusing on the application of nanotechnological packaging applications to enhance shelf life of shripms, in which project Thailand is coordinator and Malaysia is partner. Moreover, we have just got a new support from PRIMA Section 2 as partner and in this project we will produce vegan hamburger bread and patties from mushroom glucans and proteins.

My research team is performing research activities in food based proteins, their extraction, characterization, textural and rheological properties, production of active and intelligent single or multi-layer edible flms and coatings based on extracted protenis, production of nanofiber sheets with alternative methods from proteins, modification of functional properties of extracted poteins, novel extraction techniques such as ohmic system, and so on.
We want to be coordinate a project focusing on the “Assessing novel antimicrobial food packaging and coating materials to reduce food waste to improve safety in the Mediterranean food supply chain”. As a leader of my research team, I am managing 2 different projects which one was supported by Turkish Scientific and Technlogical Research Council (TUBITAK), and the other one was supported by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Turkiye. On the other hand, my team is the partner of an international project collaboration from Thailand (coordinator) and Malaysia (partner). Our project, for which we made the last application under the coordination of Egypt, was supported by PRIMA Section 2 and we are also a partner in this project. As to be clearly understood, we are totally have experience in project management which are supported by TUBITAK and other governmental agencies, as well as international agencies.
In the majority of these supported projects, the development of packaging materials that can exhibit active properties from biodegradable polymers and their application to different food groups are being studied. We have a new hybrid nanofiber production equipment for developing nanotechnological food pacakagings including antimicrobials or coloring agents for intelligent packaging. We also have a single screw extruder for pilot scale production of packaging films from synthetic or biodegradable polymers.
In this manner, we are looking for partners from Mediterranean countries from Europe and Africa who are eligible for project application.