Fatma Şahmurat received her Ph.D. in Biological Systems Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in 2016 and is now pursuing her academic career as a researcher and faculty member. She worked as a graduate research assistant at Virginia Tech (2014-2016). In 2017, she moved to Aksaray University and was promoted to assistant professor in 2018. Her research topics mainly include food process engineering, unit operations, non-thermal food processing, nanoemulsion systems, and mathematical modeling of food processes.