My name is Hazal Ozyurt, I am looking forward to joining a consortium of Topic 2 as a partner.

I am currently working as a Assos Prof. Dr. at the Department ofGastronomy and Culinary Department, Muğla Sıtkı Kocman University. I am applying for being a consortium’s partner as I believe that my skills and experience will bring added value to the project work on food safety.

My research interests are detection of food process contamination with various analitical methods such as chromatography, electrochemistry, spectroscopy, etc. In recent years, sensors have become an increasingly popular and significant area in food analysis and food safety. It is believed that research in this field will make substantial contributions to food preparation processes. Therefore, it is suggested that instead of relying on chromatographic methods, which require a long time and specialized personnel, food safety should be ensured through the use of sensors that provide fast and accurate results, and even enable on-site identification. Therefore, I am willing to collaborate on the development of electrochemical or colorimetric sensor technologies.

Our university is located in Muğla, Turkey, and we have a comprehensive infrastructure. We are working on developing alternative analytical methods to advanced chromatographic techniques.