Dr Meltem Keklik Nene

Biography

Nene Meltem Keklik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Engineering at Cumhuriyet University in Turkey, where she has been a faculty member since 2010. She completed her PhD at the Pennsylvania State University and her undergraduate and MSc studies at Gaziantep University. Her research interests include emerging food technologies, unit operations in food engineering and kinetic modeling of microbial inactivation. She has recently focused on new product development and synergistic effect of hurdles. She is currently teaching ‘Unit operations’, ‘Mass transfer’, ‘Reaction kinetics in food engineering’, and ‘New product development and optimization’ as undergraduate courses; and ‘Kinetic modeling in food engineering’, ‘Optimization in food engineering’, ‘Non-thermal food preservation methods’, and ‘Detection and characterization of foodborne pathogens’ as graduate courses. Nene Meltem Keklik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Engineering at Cumhuriyet University in Turkey, where she has been a faculty member since 2010. She completed her PhD at the Pennsylvania State University and her undergraduate and MSc studies at Gaziantep University. Her research interests include emerging food technologies, unit operations in food engineering and kinetic modeling of microbial inactivation. She has recently focused on new product development and synergistic effect of hurdles. She is currently teaching ‘Unit operations’, ‘Mass transfer’, ‘Reaction kinetics in food engineering’, and ‘New product development and optimization’ as undergraduate courses; and ‘Kinetic modeling in food engineering’, ‘Optimization in food engineering’, ‘Non-thermal food preservation methods’, and ‘Detection and characterization of foodborne pathogens’ as graduate courses.

Research Interest

Food Engineering