Fatih Tarlak is an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at Gebze Technical University. He received his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Gazi University (2009) and his Ph.D. from Gebze Technical University (2018). During his TÜBİTAK-supported doctoral studies on food preservation, he was a visiting researcher at the Agricultural University of Athens. He later joined the HIBRO research group as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Córdoba. His current research primarily focuses on food science and technology, with an emphasis on predictive microbiology, machine learning, shelf-life modeling, and optimization techniques.