IFT Fellows
The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Fellow designation is an honor bestowed upon an IFT member to recognize career excellence and significant service, leadership, and contributions to IFT and the profession. To receive this designation, you must first nominate yourself or be nominated by your peers and then be selected by the IFT Fellows Jury.
2025 IFT Fellows
Soo-Yeun Lee, PhD
Soo-Yeun Lee earned her B.S. from Yonsei University (1994) and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis (2001). She served as a faculty member in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign from 2001 to 2022, receiving tenure in 2008 and promotion to full professor in 2015. In 2023, she joined Washington State University as Professor and Director of the School of Food Science. Her research focuses on promoting lifelong healthful eating by developing health-targeted food products and understanding consumer behavior. She has authored over 100 publications and is a passionate educator, earning honors such as the IFT Samuel Prescott Award (2011), USDA Regional Award for Excellence in Teaching (2013), IFT Cruess Award for Teaching (2017), and the Tanner Lectureship Award (2021). Dr. Lee has served IFT in several roles including the Board of Directors (2017–2020), Chair of the Sensory and Consumer Sciences Division (2012), Chair of the 2024 Annual Meeting Scientific Program Advisory Panel, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Food Science (2013–2022).
Jung H. Han, PhD
Jung Han holds a Ph.D. in Food Science from Purdue University, an M.Sc./B.Sc. in Agriculture, and an M.A. in Counseling Psychology. He is a Certified Food Scientist. Currently, he is Chief Technology Officer at Unlimeat, Inc. and Adjunct Associate Professor at Purdue University. Dr. Han has held prior leadership roles in academia and industry, including positions at the University of Manitoba, PepsiCo Global R&D, Pulmuone USA, and Eat Just & Good Meat. His work focuses on innovative processing and sustainable protein solutions such as plant-based and cultivated meats. He has authored 90 journal articles, book chapters, and 10 patents, as well as several books including How Flavor Works (2015) and Problem Solving in the Food Industry (2019). A long-time contributor to IFT, he has served as Associate Editor (15 years) and Scientific Editor (6 years) for the Journal of Food Science and was Chair of the Food Packaging Division. He received IFT’s Riester-Davis-Brody Food Packaging Award (2018) and the Purdue Outstanding Food Science Award (2019).
Eva Almenar, PhD
Eva Almenar received her Ph.D. in 2005 from the Institute of Agrochemistry and Food Technology (IATA-CSIC), focusing on active packaging. She is a professor at Michigan State University’s School of Packaging and has more than 20 years of experience in sustainable packaging technologies aimed at extending the shelf life of fresh produce. Her work spans modified atmosphere and active packaging using materials such as plastics, paper, and biocomposites. She has also studied consumer and industry perceptions of packaging and its impact on food waste. Dr. Almenar has authored 75 publications and filed 14 patents. Her work has been featured in media including the New York Times and BBC News. A former Chair of the IFT Food Packaging Division and the S-294 Multi-State Project, she teaches across academic levels and has earned honors such as MSU’s Outstanding Faculty Award (2019) and Outstanding Contributor to the MSU International Food Safety Training and Capacity Building Program (2024).
Marleny D.A. Saldaña, PhD
Marleny Saldaña is a Professor of Food/Bio-Engineering Processing at the University of Alberta. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering with a specialization in Process Engineering from the State University of Campinas, Brazil. Her international experience includes research in Germany, the Netherlands, and Japan. Dr. Saldaña is a global leader in green processing technologies like supercritical carbon dioxide and subcritical water for the extraction and production of bioactive compounds and novel biomaterials. She has earned numerous awards including the 2024 Killam Professorship, the 2023 ASTech Award Finalist, and the 2024–2025 ALES Graduate Mentor Award. She has served in key roles such as Director of Food Science and Bioresource Technology at the University of Alberta and Editor for the Journal of Food Engineering Reviews. She is actively involved in associations like CIFST, ISSF, IFT, and NHPRS and currently serves as the Academic Lead of Agri-Food Discovery Place.
Subramaniam Sathivel, PhD
Subramaniam Sathivel is a Professor at Louisiana State University, where he has been on faculty since 2007. He holds a Ph.D. in Food Science (Food Engineering) and completed advanced coursework in Chemical Engineering at LSU. He also earned an M.Sc. in Food Technology (Process Engineering) from the University of Reading (UK) and a B.Sc. in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka). Dr. Sathivel has taught over 1,000 undergraduates and advised more than 50 graduate students. His research focuses on food preservation systems and both thermal and non-thermal processing. He has authored over 90 publications and earned numerous accolades, including the 2024 William E. “Bud” Davis LSU Alumni Professorship. He serves on the Scientific Advisory Council for the World Food Logistics Organization and is active in multiple leadership and mentorship roles within LSU and IFT.
Maria Leonora Lotis Francisco, PhD
Francisco is a Professor of Food Science and Technology at the University of the Philippines Diliman and a Professional Food Technologist and Certified Food Scientist. She earned her Ph.D. in Food Science from the University of Georgia, along with two master’s degrees from the University of Western Sydney and UP Diliman. With over 30 years of experience, her expertise spans consumer and sensory science, food packaging, product development, and processing optimization. She is the 2025 recipient of IFT’s Certified Food Scientist credential and was elected Fellow of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology in 2022. Dr. Francisco also works closely with public sector agencies in the Philippines, including the Department of Agriculture and the Commission on Higher Education, and is a key contributor to the Philippine Association of Food Technologists.
Past Award Recipients
A complete listing of IFT Fellows since 1970 by decade is included below. View an alphabetical Fellows directory.
*indicates a deceased Fellow
2024
Hao Feng
Phrosso Economidou Hadjilucas
Mark A. Kantor
Mary Ann Lila
Catherine (Chengchu) Liu
Suresh Pillai
Shyam Sablani
Cordelia Selomulya
Darryl Sullivan
Vivian C.H. Wu
2023
Xuetong Fan
Santos Garcia
M. Mónica Giusti
Julie M. Goddard
Brendan Niemira
Robert F. Roberts
Dojin (DJ) Ryu
Chin-Kun Wang
Jianping Wu
Qixin Zhong
2021
William Aimutis
Ajay Bhaskar
Ellen Bradley
Christina A. Mireles DeWitt
Lisbeth Goddik
Elvira Gonzalez de Mejia
Kevin Keener
Monique Lacroix
Lisa Mauer
Hilary Thesmar
Kumar Venkitanarayanan
2020
Jonathan C. Allen
Robert Brackett
Keith Cadwallader
Rolando A. Flores
P. Kumar Mallikarjunan
Carmen I. Moraru
Zhongli Pan
Melvin A. Pascall
Ronald Pegg
Kantha Shelke
Cynthia Stewart
Hang Xiao
2019
Martin Cole
John Coupland
Milda Embuscado
Christopher Findlay
Lauren Jackson
Alejandro G. Marangoni
Elena M. Castell-Perez
Hosahalli Ramaswamy
Roger Ruan
Josip Simunovic
Phillip S. Tong
Martha Verghese
2018
Martha E. Cassens
Brian E. Farkas
Peter Jonathan Fryer
Linda J. Harris
Julie Miller Jones
Harry Levine
Yaguang Luo
Ricardo Jose Simpson
Randy W. Worobo
Guanghong Zhou
2017
Rotimi Emmanuel Aluko
MaryAnne Drake
Bo Jiang
Tara McHugh
Claire Koelsch Sand
Gordon Smith
Geoffrey Smithers
Beverly Tepper
2016
James Behnke
Catherine Cutter
Bruce Ferree
Peter Barton Hutt
Scott Lineback
Fatemeh Malekian
Michael McCarthy
Enrique Palou
Nagendra P. Shah
Louise Slade*
A. Elizabeth Sloan
Jorge Welti-Chanes
2015
Sheryl Barringer
Janet E. Collins
H. Russell Cross
Christopher R. Daubert
N. A. Michael Eskin
Olga Martín-Belloso
David J. McClements
Hyun Jin Park
Yrjö H. Roos
Harjinder Singh
Gow-Chin Yen
Gregory Ziegler
2014
Diane M. Barrett
Eric A. Decker
Bruce R. Hamaker
Anthony W. Kotula
Keshun Liu
Robert McGorrin
Olga I. Padilla-Zakour
Octavio Paredes-Lopez
Rukma Reddy
Juan L. Silva
Juming Tang
Pamela J. White
Raymond J. Winger
Suk Hoo Yoon
Howard Q. Zhang
2013
Ashim Datta
Michael duBois
Elisabeth Huff-Lonergan
Lekh Juneja
Larry Keener
Lucina Lampila
Chong Lee
Gary List
Rosana Moreira
Witoon Prinyawiwatkul
PV Suryaprakasa Rao*
Martin Wiedmann
2012
Cesarettin Alasalvar
V.M. (Bala) Balasubramaniam
Reinhold Carle
Carol Ann Cooper
Philip G Crandall
Carolyn Fisher
Ravishankar Gokare
Tyre C Lanier
Mukund V Karwe
Tzu-Ming Pan
Kathleen T Rajkowski
Peter Morgan Salmon
Thomas H Shellhammer
Liangli (Lucy) Yu
Yanyun Zhao
2011
Shai Barbut
Mary Susan Brewer
Hongda Chen
Catherine Donnelly
Wayne Ellefson
Melvin Hunt
Kathryn L. Kotula
F. Xavier Malcata
Herbert Ockerman
Mickey Parish
Phil Perkins
Elliot Ryser
Sheri Schellhaass
Bernhard van Lengerich
Zata Vickers
Rickey Yada
2010
Noel Anderson
Alice Cha
J. Peter Clark
Hamed Faridi
Anne Goldman
David Patrick Green
Robert Hutkins
Cherl-Ho Lee
Rui Hai Liu
Kenneth McMillin
Jonathan Merkle
Charles Onwulata
Robert E. Ross
Skip Rosskam
Donald Schaffner
Arthur Teixeira
Youling Xiong
2009
Catherine Adams
Ken Buckle
Alfred Bushway
James R. Coughlin
Theron "Tee" Downes
C. Patrick Dunne
Kathleen Nelson Feicht
Luis Fernandez
John D. Floros
Pina Fratamico
Stanley Gilliland*
Fu-Hung Hsieh
Yao-Wen Huang
John Marcy
Joseph Marcy
Dennis Miller
John Milner*
Charles Sims
Fidel Toldrá
Pamela Vaillancourt
Purnendu Vasavada
2008
Kathryn Boor
Sam K. C. Chang
John P. Cherry
Jairus David
Mario de Figueiredo
John Finley
Marianne Gillette
Vijay K. Juneja
Donald Kramer
John Krochta
Kiyoko Ruth Kubomura
Duane Larick
Richard Linton
Antonio Martin
Bonnie Sun Pan
Michele Perchonok
Vishweshwaraiah Prakash
John Rupnow
Steven Schwartz
Rakesh Singh
Lester Wilson
Carl Winter
James Swi-Bea Wu
2007
Mary Ellen Camire
Bruce R. Cords
Ronald D. Harris
Yun-Hwa Peggy Hsieh
Guy H. Johnson
Olusola Lamikanra
John W. Larkin
Huub L.M. Lelieveld
Neil H. Mermelstein
James L. Oblinger
Jae W. Park
Damanna R. Rao
Gordon L. Robertson
Sudhir K. Sastry
Virginia N. Scott
Denise M. Smith
Louise Wicker
2006
Douglas L. Archer*
Jacqueline H.P. Beckley
E. Allen Foegeding
William C. Franke
Wayne T. Iwaoka
Arthur J. Miller
I. Sam Saguy
Aurora A. Saulo
Richard C. Whiting
2005
Casimir C. Akoh
Hans P. Blaschek
Richard H. Dougherty
Richard W. Hartel
Ellen Lauber
Douglas L. Marshall
Michael W. Moody
Nancy E. Nagle
Mohan Rao
Barbara A. Rasco
Fereidoon Shahidi
Donn R. Ward
2004
James N. Bemiller
Maribeth A. Cousin
Stephanie Doores
Dean D. Duxbury*
L. Frank Flora
Russell S. Flowers*
Susan L. Hefle*
Leslie J. Herzog
Dallas G. Hoover
Yen-Con Hung
Lucy S. Hwang
Howard R. Moskowitz
Shuryo Nakai
Barbara J. Petersen
Ralph L. Price*
Shridhar K. Sathe*
Shelly J. Schmidt
Joseph G. Sebranek
2003
Jose M. Aguilera
William L. Baran
Gustavo V. Barbosa-Cánovas
R. Coe Barnard
Roger A. Clemens
P. Michael Davidson
Navam S. Hettiarachchy
Chi-Tang Ho
C. Ann Hollingsworth*
Kenneth S. Marsh
John K. McAnelly*
Michael T. Morrissey
O. Robert Noyes*
B. Onuma Okezie
George A. Purvis
David S. Reid*
Kenneth E. Stevenson
Elaine R. Wedral
2002
Christine M. Bruhn
Robert L. Buchanan
Charles L. Duncan
Susan K. Harlander
Joseph H. Hotchkiss
Mark McLellan
David B. Min*
Brian G. Raines
Barry G. Swanson
Katherine M.J. Swanson
2001
Barbara Blakistone
Colin Dennis
Faye M. Dong
Felix J. Germino
Norman F. Haard*
David H. Hettinga
George E. Inglett
Tai-Wan Kwon
Margaret A. Lawson
Thomas J. Montville
Walter Steven Otwell
Khee-Choon Rhee*
Mary K. Wagner
2000
Robert B. Gravani
Todd R. Klaenhammer*
Jozef J. Kokini
S. Suzanne Nielsen
Anna V.A. Resurreccion
Syed S.H. Rizvi
Karen M. Schaich
R. Paul Singh
John G. Surak
Pamela D. Tom
1999
Catharina Y.W. Ang
Clark J. Brekke
Fredric Caporaso
Manjeet S. Chinnan
Michael P. Doyle
Peggy M. Foegeding*
Ruth M. Patrick
Ronald H. Schmidt*
Robert L. Shewfelt
Erik Von Sydow*
1998
Wayne R. Bidlack*
Gloria Brooks-Ray
John A. Carpenter
Ken Lee
William H. Root*
Walter E.L. Spiess
Richard F. Stier
Marilyn A. Swanson
Kenneth R. Swartzel
1997
Robert C. Baker*
John C. Bruhn*
Lloyd B. Bullerman
Marvin J. Byer*
Horace D. Graham*
Justin R. Morris
Michael W. Pariza
M. Anandha Rao
Ronald L. Richter
John N. Sofos
John E. Vanderveen
Bruce P. Wasserman*
Frederick H. Wolfe
1996
Jerry N. Cash
Andrew G. Ebert
Glenn W. Froning*
Virginia H. Holsinger*
James M. Jay*
John B. Klis*
Manfred Kroger
Rauno Andrew Lampi
Chang Yong (Cy) Lee
Dicki Lulay
Mary K. Schmidl
Marvin A. Tung*
Connie M. Weaver
1995
John M. DeMan
Ronald R. Eitenmiller
Daniel Y.C. Fung*
Donald D. Hamann*
Roy E. Martin
Alan J. Post*
Joe M. Regenstein
Wajih N. Sawaya
Bruce R. Stillings
Mark A. Uebersax
1994
James J. Albrecht
James V. Chambers*
William D. Davidson*
Robert V. Decareau*
Thayne R. Dutson
Barbara P. Klein*
William C. Mickelberry
Richard R. Perdue
George M. Pigott*
Stanley Segall*
James L. Vetter
1993
Robert P. Bates
Robert J. Braddock
Donald J. Casimir
Clayton S. Huber*
William S. La Grange
Joseph A. Liuzzo
James H. Moy
Samuel A. Palumbo*
Daniel E. Pratt
Arthur J. Siedler*
David W. Stanley
Ronald E. Wrolstad
1992
Grady W. Chism III
John W. Erdman Jr.
Charles Feldberg
George J. Flick Jr.
Joseph J. Jen
Charles H. Manley
Guillermo Suarez Fernandez
1991
Roy G. Arnold*
Donald A. Corlett Jr.*
Pavel J. Jelen
Paul C. Ma
Pericles C. Markakis*
Larry L. McKay
Charles Radanovics
Bernabe Sanz-Perez
Fred R. Shank*
1990
Louis J. Bianco*
Arnold E. Denton*
Gustav Richard Jansen
Merle D. Pierson
Robert E. Rust
Laszlo P. Somogyi
Mary Ellen Zabik
1989
Don Blenford*
Jack Cooper
Lawrence E. Dawson*
Johannes Diehl*
Seymour G. Gilbert
Judson M. Harper
Herbert O. Hultin*
John H. Kilbuck
Elizabeth Larmond
Hermann Schmidt-Hebbel
R. Bruce Tompkin
Isabel D. Wolf
1988
Charles J. Bates*
Charles A. Becker*
Dee M. Graham
Robert C. Lindsay
Robert J. Price*
Edmund A. Zottola
1987
Eugene C. Allen
Clyde Amundson*
J. Robert Brunner*
Robert J. Hlavacek
Paul F. Hopper*
Ogden C. Johnson*
Gerald Kuhn*
John B. Mann
Norman F. Olson*
Robert E. Smith
Keith H. Steinkraus*
G. Malcolm Trout*
1986
William L. Brown
Allen A. Kraft
Bor S. Luh*
Raymond J. Moshy*
J. Warren Stull*
Stephen L. Taylor
Robert C. Wiley
1985
Larry Beuchat
Malcolm C. Bourne*
Jean F. Caul
Kan-Ichi Hayakawa*
Lamartine F. Hood
Gabriel J. Lauro
Norman C. Miller Jr.
Nell I. Mondy*
Abdul R. Rahman*
Thomas Richardson*
Howard G. Schutz*
William J. Shannon*
John H. Silliker
Romeo T. Toledo
Homer Walker*
Tamotsu Yokotsuka
1984
Robert E. Berry
Wilbur S. Claus*
Weld E. Conley*
John E. Kinsella*
William W. Marion
Leon J. Rubin*
Don F. Splittstoesser*
Kent K. Stewart
Herbert Stone
1983
Vigen K. Babayan*
Robert R. Baldwin*
Henri Cheftel*
Donald L. Downing*
Joachim H. von Elbe
Robert L. Henrickson
Paul Khan*
Jack K. Krum*
Elmer H. Marth*
Richard F. Matthews*
Charles W. Nagel*
Tommy Nakayama
Alvin I. Nelson*
Lowell D. Satterlee
Khem M. Shahani*
Fred R. Tarver Jr.*
1982
Francis F. Busta
Walter L. Clark*
Leroy Dugan Jr.
Richard H. Forsythe
Masao Fujimaki
M.K. Hamdy
H.C.R. Heiss
William J. Hoover
Miguel A. Jimenez*
Paul A. Lachance*
Gilbert A. Leveille*
David R. Lineback
Walter A. Mercer*
Ian D. Morton*
William D. Powrie*
Toshimaro Sone*
Elizabeth F. Stier*
Norman W. Tape
Bernard A. Twigg*
Lloyd D. Witter*
1981
John A. Barnes
Andre Bolaffi
George N. Bookwalter*
Albert W. Brant*
Aaron L. Brody*
Robert G. Cassens
John L. Etchells*
Kenneth T. Farrell*
Martin Glicksman*
Dennis R. Heldman
Clifford M. Hollenback*
Mogens H. Jul*
Endel Karmas*
James R. Kirk*
Tung-Ching Lee
Martin W. Miller*
Edwin L. Mitchell*
Verner H. Nielsen*
Robert L. Olson*
David F. Owen*
Arthur T. Schramm*
Rhule B. Sleeth*
Alina S. Szczesniak*
1980
J. Ralph Blanchfield*
Elwood F. Caldwell*
Zerle L. Carpenter
Raymond A. Dennison*
C. Anthon Ernstrom*
Daniel F. Farkas
Owen R. Fennema*
Wilbur A. Gould*
Sidney W.F. Hanson*
Herbert A. Hollender*
Sam R. Hoover*
Dorothy Ann Huber*
Melvin R. Johnston*
Carl H. Krieger*
Richard V. Lechowich
John H. Litchfield*
Daryl B. Lund
Philip E. Nelson
Rose Marie Pangborn*
Robert C. Pearl*
Irving J. Pflug*
Gerald Reed*
Louis B. Rockland*
D. Dattajeerao K. Salunkhe*
Robert M. Schaffner*
John D. Sink
Steven R. Tannenbaum
John R. Whitaker*
1979
Willard E. Baier*
Benjamin Borenstein*
Hormoz K.F. Broumand*
Robert F. Cain*
Fergus M. Clydesdale
Kirby M. Hayes*
Albert C. Hersom*
James D. Kemp
Amihud Kramer*
Theodore P. Labuza
Bernard J. Liska*
Gideon E. Livingston*
Jack H. Mitchell Jr.*
Hisateru Mitsuda
Roland A. Morck*
Charles V. Morr
Roy E. Morse*
Yeshajahu Pomeranz*
A. Barde Rogers*
Hatton B. Rogers*
Irving I. Rusoff*
Byron M. Shinn*
Myron Solberg*
Aaron E. Wasserman
Jasper G. Woodroof*
1978
Gale R. Ammerman*
Francis P. Griffiths*
Lois Ann Sather McGill*
Roy E. Moser
Christian J.B. Smit
1977
Edward E. Anderson
Francis Aylward*
Ernest J. Briskey*
Alan G. Ward*
1976
J.C. Bauernfeind*
Raymond H. Binsted*
Charles A. Glabau*
John Hawthorn*
Matthew E. Highlands*
George J. Hucker*
Anthony Lopez
Junius M. McIntire*
Max Milner*
Charles F. Niven Jr.*
John J. Powers*
Loren B. Sjostrom*
Marvin L. Speck*
Kenneth G. Weckel*
1975
Howard E. Bauman*
Ben F. Buchanan*
Edward E. Burns*
Laverne E. Clifcorn*
Frederick J. Francis*
Ellery H. Harvey*
Ivan D. Jones
Eduardo R. Mendez Jr.*
Bruce H. Morgan*
John T.R. Nickerson*
Tetsujiro Obara*
E.B. Oberg*
Bernard L. Oser*
William M. Roberts*
Herbert E. Robinson*
Charles T. Townsend*
Virgil O. Wodicka*
1974
John C. Ayres*
Philip K. Bates*
Stephen S. Chang*
Adolph S. Clausi
Robert G. DiMarco
Charles J. Duffy*
James W. Evans*
Enio Feliciotti*
Willis A. Gortner*
Hugh T. Griswold
Richard L. Hall*
Hans Lineweaver*
Gordon Mackinney*
Hamilton W. Putnam*
Edward Seltzer*
Horace L. Sipple*
1973
Clinton O. Chichester*
Imri J. Hutchings*
Z. John Ordal*
1972
Evan F. Binkerd*
Maynard A. Joslyn*
Marcus Karel*
Albert M. Pearson*
Arthur N. Prater*
Reese H. Vaughn*
1971
John M. Nair*
Roy C. Newton*
Harold S. Olcott*
William Stadelman*
George F. Stewart*
Gladys E. Vail*
Ernest H. Wiegand*
1970
C. Olin Ball*
Laurence V. Burton*
Berton S. Clark*
Victor Conquest*
Michael J. Copley*
Helmut C. Diehl*
Edwin M. Foster*
Charles N. Frey*
Samuel A. Goldblith*
Henry E. Goresline*
Lloyd A. Hall*
David B. Hand*
Louis B. Howard*
Rohland A. Isker*
John M. Jackson*
Charles G. King*
Reid T. Milner*
Emil M. Mrak*
Harold W. Schultz*
Bernard S. Schweigert*
Paul F. Sharp*
Ira I. Somers*
H.L.A. Tarr*
Donald K. Tressler*
Walter M. Urbain*
James R. Vickery*
Betty M. Watts*
