Samiye Akın Adal is a lecturer–researcher in the Department of Food Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Afyon Kocatepe University, Türkiye (since 2022). She received her B.Sc. in food engineering from Ege University (2010), her M.Sc. from Manisa Celal Bayar University (2018) with a thesis on mineral-enriched breads fortified with eggshell powder, and her PhD from Adana Alparslan Türkeş Science and Technology University (2024) with a thesis assessing the processing of fruit and vegetable products by exergy and life cycle analyses. Before joining academia, she worked for several years in the food industry as a food engineer, quality assurance engineer and plant manager. Her research combines life cycle assessment, exergy and exergoeconomic analysis and carbon footprinting of food supply chains with food waste valorisation, circular bioeconomy, edible coatings and egg quality. She has published many articles in international refereed journals, including sole-author and first-author papers in Biomass and Bioenergy and the Journal of Food Science, as well as many book chapters with Elsevier, Springer, Woodhead and Bentham. She serves as a researcher or advisor in TÜBİTAK and BAP-funded projects, lectures on LCA in TÜBİTAK 2237 training programmes, and participates in COST Actions CA21146 (PURPLEGAIN), CA23157 and many other COST actions. She is a member of the TMMOB Chamber of Food Engineers and received the Elsevier Top Reviewer Award (2025).