Esra Çapanoglu Güven, a full professor at the Department of Food Engineering, and leading international food chemist, is known for her expertise in processing and food matrix effects on the content and bioavailability of bioactives. She has also made important contributions to investigating methods to improve the bioavailability of bioactive compounds, as well as waste valorization. She has published three books, 30 chapters and more than 300 international/national scientific papers. She was selected as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2019, 2022, and 2023 by Clarivate, Web of Science Group. She has also been indicated as the top 2% of scientists of the main subfield discipline according to the list created by Stanford University for the last 4 years (2020-2023). She also received Georg Forster Prize from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in July 2022. She has been selected as an Associate Member for the Turkish Academy of Sciences starting from 2023. She is an Assoc.

Editor in ACS Omega and Editorial Advisory Board Member of Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (JAFC), Food Frontiers, Journal of Berry Research, Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry, and several others.