Gülsün Akdemir Evrendilek

Associate Extension Professor and Seafood Technology and Food Safety Specialist
5735 Hitchner Hall, Room 348, Orono, ME 04469
Email: gulsun.akdemir@maine.edu
Telephone: 207.581.1378

Dr. Akdemir Evrendilek is an Associate Extension Professor and Seafood Technology & Food Safety Specialist with expertise in food safety, food microbiology, and foodborne pathogens. She provides training in seafood HACCP, meat and poultry HACCP, and food processing sanitation, helping industry professionals and students strengthen compliance and safety practices. Her research focuses on innovative food processing technologies such as pulsed electric fields (PEF), high-pressure processing (HPP), ozone, UV-C, and ultrasonication, as well as biosensor technologies for rapid pathogen detection and PFAS mitigation in seafood and food systems. She also works on food quality, product development, waste valorization, and predictive microbiology, with extensive experience implementing GMP and SSOP systems in the food industry.

Education:

• Ph.D.: The Ohio State University, Food Science and Technology
• M.Sc.: The Ohio State University, Food Science and Technology
• B.S.: Ankara University, Food Science and Technology

Work-related certificates

• AFDO Basic Seafood HACCP Certificate
• Seafood HACCP Alliance Segment One Course Certificate
• Basic Seafood HACCP Trainer Course Certificate
• PSA Grower Training Course
• Food Allergen Training Certificates (Egg, Fish, Milk, Peanut, Sesame, Shellfish, Tree, Soy, Nut and Wheat)
• Sanitation Essentials for Food Manufacturing Certificate
• FSPCA Preventive Controls for Human Food Version 2.0 Certificate
• Meat and Poultry HACCP Instructor Certificate
• Certificate of general entrepreneurship
• Certificate of advance entrepreneurship

Professional Organization

• Food Safety Association
• Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)
• AFDO International and Government Relations Committee