Murat O. Balaban (Honors)

Honor student during B.Sc. studies.

Scholarship for graduate studies from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) based in Paris, France. 1977-1983.

Egtwedt Food Research Fellowship from the University of Washington, Seattle. 1983.

Nomination to the Teacher of the Year Award, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. 1993.

Listed in the Dictionary of International Biography. 1996

Listed in the American Men and Women of Science. 1995-Present.

Listed in Who's Who in the South and Southwest. 1995-Present.

Listed in Who's Who in the World. 1995-Present.

Fulbright Scholar to Portugal. 1995.

"Color and Cloud Stability Improvement of Carrot Juice", by Sims, Balaban and Matthews received the Best Paper in the Handling and Processing Section Award from Florida State Horticultural Society. 1994.

Listed in the Turkish American Scientists and Engineers. 1993-Present.

Tau Sigma Pi Honor Society of Agriculture. 1992 to Present.

"Non-destructive quality screening of tomato fruit using electronic nose technology" by Maul, Sargent, Huber, Balaban, Luzuriaga, Baldwin. 1997. Outstanding paper award in Processing and Handling section, Florida State Horticutural Society.

IAFIS-ASAE FPEI Food Engineering Award. 1998. Prize and gold medal.

"Non-destructive quality screening of tomato fruit using electronic nose technology" by Maul, Sargent, Huber, Balaban, Luzuriaga, Baldwin. 1999. American Society for Horticultural Science Vegetable Publication Award.

University of Florida Productivity Award, 1999.

ESCOP/ACOP Leadership Development Program, Sept.18-23, 1999. Indianapolis.

University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship Award and Prize. 2000-2003.

"Application of Computer Vision and Electronic Nose Technologies For Quality Assessment of Color and Odor of Shrimp and Salmon" by D. L. Luzuriaga, 1999 was selected as the Best Dissertation in IFAS. 2000.

"Thermal Inactivation Kinetics of Bromelain in Pineapple Juice", 2001. A. Sriwatanapongse, M. O. Balaban, A. Teixeira, won the ASAE Superior Paper Award for 2001.

"High Pressure and Temperature Dependence of Thermodynamic Properties of Model Food Solutions Obtained from in Situ Ultrasonic Measurements" by Roger D. Barbosa was selected as the Best Dissertation in IFAS. 2004.

External Ph.D. Examiner. July 2006. University College Dublin. National University of Ireland. Biosystems Engineering. School of Food Science Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine. Chaoxin Zhang. "Development of Novel Image Segmentation and Image Feature Extraction Techniques and Their Applications for the Evaluation of Shrinkage, Moisture Content, and Texture of Large Cooked and Cooled Beef Joints".

Keynote Speaker, Invited. 2006. May 26. "Research with Purpose: Food Engineering for Commercialization".  Food Engineering Seminar. King Mongkut's Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.

Keynote speaker, Invited. 2006: October 29-Nov.1 "Some Advances in Processes and Added Value to Aquatic Products". TAFT 2006. 2nd Joint Transatlantic Fisheries Technologies Conference. Quebec City, Canada.

First place Award and Prize “RENATO JOĆO SOSSELA DE FREITAS” Brazilian Society of Food Science and Technology, in the Analytical Methods category. 2006. Comparison of Color Sensory Panel & Machine Vision Results Using Images of CO Treated Rabbit Meat. Balaban M. O.; Aparicio J. A.; Zotarelli M. F. XX Brazilian Congress of Food Science and Technology. October 8-11, 2006. Curibita, PR, Brazil.

Leadership Enhancement and Administrative Development (LEAD) program 2007-2008.

University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship Award and Prize. 2007-2010.

Last revised April 24, 2007