Purlen Sezer Okur
Ph.D. Candidate Department of Food Science and Technology University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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264 Food Innovation Center
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psezerokur2@unl.edu
I received my B.S. and M.S., both in Food Engineering, from the Middle East Technical University, Turkey, in 2017 and 2019, respectively. The title of my master’s study was “Improving the gelation properties of fish gelatin by using novel technologies such as high hydrostatic pressure and ultrasonication.”. I participated in Ciftci’s lab in 2021 as a Ph.D. student. Currently, my research focuses on the green processing of lipids to form natural food ingredients to be used as bioactive carriers, fat replacers, and natural food antimicrobials. The title of my Ph.D. project is “Development of an innovative green platform technology to manufacture novel multifunctional hollow solid lipid micro- and nanoparticles.”. My project is supported by USDA NIFA Novel Foods and Manufacturing Technologies program.