SFOS Faculty > Murat Omer Balaban > Honors
SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
- Editorial Board, International Journal of Food Properties. 1996-Present.
- Journal of Fisheries Sciences Turkey, editorial board. 2007-present
- Editorial Board, Food Technology in Turkey. 1995-Present.
- Associate Editor, Journal of Aquatic Food Process Technology. 1995-1998.
- Editorial Board, Journal of Food Process Engineering. 1995.
Many manuscript reviews for many journals
USDA and Sea Grant proposal reviews
- Review of software for Chapman and Hall Publishers. 1995.
- Review of software for CRC Press. 1995.
HONORS AND AWARDS
| YEAR | ORGANIZATION | AWARD/HONOR |
| 2008-2009 | University of Alaska Fairbanks | Academic Leadership Training Program |
| 2008 | 1st Intern. Congress on Seafood Technology , Cesme Turkey | Invited keynote speaker: "Application of carbon monoxide to aquatic foods: promise and concerns" |
| 2007-2010 | University of Florida Research Foundation | Research Professorship Award and Prize. $3,000 for research, $5,000 addition to salary |
| 2007-2008 | University of Florida | Leadership Enhancement and Administrative Development (LEAD) program |
| 2006 | Brazilian Society of Food Science and Technology | First place Award and Prize “RENATO JOÃO SOSSELA DE FREITAS” in the Analytical Methods category. 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. |
| 2006 | TAFT | Keynote speaker, Invited. 2006: October 29-Nov.1 "Some Advances in Processes and Added Value to Aquatic Products". TAFT 2006. 2nd Joint Transatlantic Fisheries Techn. Conf. Quebec City, Canada. |
| 2006 | King Mongkut's Institute of Technology | Keynote Speaker, Invited. 2006. May 26. "Research with Purpose: Food Engineering for Commercialization". Food Engineering Seminar. KMTL, Bangkok, Thailand. |
| 2006 | 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". |
| 2004 | IFAS | Best Dissertation in IFAS. "High Pressure and Temperature Dependence of Thermodynamic Properties of Model Food Solutions Obtained from in Situ Ultrasonic Measurements" by Roger D. Barbosa |
| 2001 | ASAE | ASAE Superior Paper Award for 2001. "Thermal Inactivation Kinetics of Bromelain in Pineapple Juice", A. Sriwatanapongse, M. O. Balaban, A. Teixeira, |
| 2000 | IFAS | Best Dissertation in IFAS. "Application of Computer Vision and Electronic Nose Technologies For Quality Assessment of Color and Odor of Shrimp and Salmon" by D. L. Luzuriaga, |
| 2000-2003 | University of Florida Research Foundation | Research Professorship Award and Prize. $3,000 for research, $5,000 addition to salary |
| 1999 | University of Florida | ESCOP/ACOP Leadership Development Program, Sept.18-23, 1999. Indianapolis. |
| 1999 | University of Florida | Productivity Award |
| 1999 | American Society for Horticultural Science | Vegetable Publication Award. "Non-destructive quality screening of tomato fruit using electronic nose technology" by Maul, Sargent, Huber, Balaban, Luzuriaga, Baldwin. |
| 1998 | IAFIS-ASAE FPEI | Food Engineering Award. Prize and gold medal. |
| 1997 | Florida State Horticutural Society | Outstanding paper award in Processing and Handling section. "Non-destructive quality screening of tomato fruit using electronic nose technology" by Maul, Sargent, Huber, Balaban, Luzuriaga, Baldwin. |
| 1995 | Fulbright | Fulbright Scholar to Portugal |
| 1994 | Florida State Horticultural Society | Best Paper in the Handling and Processing Section Award. "Color and Cloud Stability Improvement of Carrot Juice", by Sims, Balaban and Matthews |
| 1993 | IFAS, UF | Nomination for the best teacher of the year award |
| 1983 | University of Washington | Egtwedt Food Research Fellowship |
| 1977-1983 | OECD, Paris | Scholarship for graduate studies |
| 1971-1976 | METU, Ankara | Honor Student during B.Sc. studies in chemical engineering |
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.
Listed in the Turkish American Scientists and Engineers. 1993-Present.
Tau Sigma Pi Honor Society of Agriculture. 1992 to Present.
CONSULTATIONS
Food Machinery Corporation, Citrus Machinery Division, Lakeland, FL, September, 1987. Supercritical Fluid Processing.
Food Machinery Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, June, 1988. Supercritical CO2 Processing.
Assisted Mr. Kenneth Frey for the evaluation of his patented invention. 1988.
Assisted ABC Research to spray dry two new products from their biotechnology research, in our pilot plant facility. 1988.
Met with alligator farmers in Meat Science Department with Dr. Leak, to discuss possibilities of using trimmed fat. As a result of our studies on the alligator lipids, a cosmetics company is buying trimmed fat from farmers. 1989.
Assisted ABC Research to supercritically extract potentially valuable compounds from dried whey, as a preliminary study. 1989.
Bioderm, Inc. Tampa, FL. 1989 and 1990. Freeze drying, sterilization and concentration.
Florida Foods, Inc., Eustis, FL. Carrot juice and aloe vera processing. 1990.
University of Missouri, Grants Review Panel member, 1991
USDA Small Business Innovation Research, National Review Panel member. 1991
Member of the operations analysis group, Singleton Seafood, Tampa, FL. 1993.
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of FMC Corporation, 1991 to 1994.
Laitram Machinery. Optimization of Cooking of Shrimp. 1998-1999