Dr. Altan received her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Food Engineering at the University of Gaziantep,Turkey in 2000 and 2003, respectively. She received her Ph.D. degree in Food Engineering in 2008 from University of Gaziantep in Turkey focusing on extrusion process under a collaborative research with University of California, Davis. She worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Davis from 2009 to 2010. She joined the faculty of food engineering at the University of Mersin in 2010.