Assistant Professor of Food Engineering

Educated at Faculty of Science , Bethlehem University, Palestine (1989), at the National Polytechnic Institute,France (1993), and at the University of Magdeburg, France (1998).

Research interests

• Development in the dairy chemistry: caseins and cheese production
• Amelioration of the chemical composition of milk fat by fractionation
• Quality of olive oils
• Pesticides in fruits and vegetables
• Food additives toxicology

Teaching

Graduate Courses

• 8038682 Food Chemistry & food additives
• 8038680 Food Processing technology

Undergraduate Courses

• 0309451 Dairy Science & Technology
• 0309337 Food Additives
• 0309336 Food Sanitation
• 0309221 Food Chemistry 1
• 0309312 Food Chemistry 2
• 0309333 Thermal Processing
• 0309334 Thermal Processing Lab
• 0309441 Cereal Technology
• 0309101 Principles of Food Science
• 0309341 Food Preparation
• 0309331 Introduction to Food Technology
• 0309355 Principle of Food Nutrition
• 0309471 Fruits & Vegetables Technology
• 0309402 Food Poisoning
• 0309335 Food Packaging

Publications

• ( with J. Maslaha and J. Mustapha ).The response of Corn to irrigation with treated waste water in semiarid area in Palestine. EM Water regional conference Amman Jordan. 30 Oct to 1 Nov 2006.
• (with Jaber Masalha, Jawad A. H Shqier) . Effect of Effluents on Atrazine Leaching) . First international conference "Water: Values and Rights" Ramallah – Palestine 2005
• (with Fanni, J., Parmentier, M.,). Crossflow filtration of oils on metal oxides. Influence of chemical composition of the layer. JAOCS, Feb 2000, 77 (2), 201-205
• (with Fanni, J., Linder, M., Parmentier, M.,). "The crossflow filtration of oils: Selective adsorption of Butter oil triglycerides on a support characterized by various hydrophobicity" European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology, Jan 2000,102 (1), 7-14