Selçuk Yildirim

Selcuk Yildirim is a Professor and the Head of the Center for Food Processing and Packaging at the Institute of Food and Beverage Innovation, Zürich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Switzerland. He holds a BSc in Food Engineering and an MSc in Process Engineering. Dr. Yildirim earned his PhD in Biotechnology from ETH Zurich, where he later served as a Post-Doctoral researcher and Group Leader in the Food Biotechnology Group. Before joining ZHAW in 2010, he worked as a researcher at the European Research and Development Center of Alcan Packaging. Currently, he also holds the position of Deputy Director at the Institute of Food and Beverage Innovation at ZHAW. 

As the head of the Food Packaging Research Group at ZHAW, he and his team develop sustainable and innovative packaging concepts. He maintains close collaboration with the food and packaging industries to successfully implement these concepts in practice, thereby reducing the environmental impact of packaging without compromising the quality and safety of the food.