Serpil Sahin is a professor in the Department of Food Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. She received a BS degree (1989), MS degree (1992), PhD degree (1997) from the Department of Food Engineering, Middle East Technical University. She is the author and co-author of about 140 journal articles and book chapters. She has more than 4100 citations, and her h index is 39. She is one of the authors of “Physical Properties of Foods”, published by Springer in 2006. She is also one of the authors of the book "Fluid Flow, Heat and Mass Transfer of Foods" (2020). Her research interests are food processing such as extraction, frying and drying, physical properties of foods, encapsulation, and active packaging.