Food Sciences and Technology

Academic Staff

June 1, 2026, 11:06 a.m.
Khabat Noori Hussein
Khabat Noori Hussein (PhD) Head of the Department
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Assistant Professor in Food Science

Food Sciences and Technology
College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences
University of Duhok
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  • Dr Khabat Noori Hussein is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Food Science and Technology, College of Agricultural Engineering Science, University of Duhok. He got a B.Sc. degree in Animal Production in 2008 from the University of Duhok, Kurdistan, Iraq, and an M.Sc. degree in 'Livestock Production Science' from Essex University, UK in 2012, and was awarded a Ph.D. degree in 'Food Science' in 2021 from the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Hungary. His research interests include Meat Technology, Food Preservation. Dr. Khabat is a member of several academic associations.

  • 2013-2016, and fall semester 2021-2022, and 2022-2023: Academic debates-1st-Dept. of animal production- College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences -UoD.
  • 2013-2014: Poultry Management-Practical: 2nd Year-Dept. of animal production- College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences-UoD.
  • 2013-2016, and 2021-2022 Poultry Product Technology-Practical: 4th year-Dept. of animal production- College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences - UoD.
  • 2013-2016: Turkey and aquatic fowl Production-Theory and Practical: 3rd Year-Dept. of animal production- College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences – UoD
  • 2014-2015: Student seminar organizers – 4th Year-Dept. of animal production- College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences - UoD.
  • 2017-2019 Meat and poultry technology and quality issues for BSc, MSc, and PhD Students, department of Refrigeration and Livestock Product Technology-Faculty of Food Science-Szent Istvan University, Hungary.
  • 2022-2025 Principle of Food Science- Theory and Practical: 1st Year - Dept. of Food Science and Technology- College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences – UoD
  • 2023-2024: 2024-2025 Food Preservation- Theory and Practical: 2nd Year - Dept. of Food Science and Technology- College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences – UoD
  • 2024-2025 Food Packaging - Theory and Practical: 2nd Year - Dept. of Food Science and Technology- College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences – UoD
  • 2023-2024 Food Preservation- Theory and Practical: MSc - Dept. of Animal Production and Food Science and Technology- College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences – UoD

  • Training and Workshops Attended
  1. PTC+ and MENA Scholarship Program, held in Barneveld, the Netherlands 1-26 Feb 2016.
  2. Successfully completed an online non-credit course “The Meat We Eat” authorized by the University of Florida and offered through Coursera on 25-06-2020.
  3. Successfully completed the Global Food Venture Programme – STAGE I Summer School organized by EIT Food from 8th - 17th of June 2020.
  4. Organized the workshop related to World Food Day 16.10.2025, held in the department of food science and technology - College of Agricultural Engineering sciences - University of Duhok,
  • General Activities
  1. Participation in Forum and fair entitled Learning to Live Together (The Present and Future of Citizenship and Human Rights Education in Hungary, European Youth Centre, council of Europe- Budapest- Hungary, 8-9 December 2017.
  2. Participation in a workshop entitled: Ideation Workshop for Business Ideas, climate-KIC held at Anker Business Center, Budapest- Hungary, 10 April 2019.
  3. Worked with AVSI organization as Business Coach in a project entitled ‘Resilience building and income access interventions for Yazidi women, youth and smallholder farmers belonging to vulnerable displaced, refugee and host community populations in Duhok Governorate - AID 12055’ from 27.03.2022 to 14.05.2022.
  4. Worked with Save The Children – International - SCI- organization as a Trainer - in a project entitled ‘Food Security and Livelihood) helping smallholder farmers belonging to vulnerable displaced, refugee, and host community populations in Semel, from 07.06.2022 to 30.09.2022.
  5. Co-founder (Vice head of the Department of Food Science and Technology) and member of the team that established the Department of Food Science and Technology in the College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences, University of Duhok, Kurdistan, Iraq, 2022.
  6. Worked with AVSI organization as a Trainer from Food production - in a project entitled ‘Achieving socio-economic stability of returnees, host community and IDPs in Iraq (ASET)) helping smallholder farmers belonging to vulnerable displaced, refugee, and host community populations in Shexan, Sinjar, and Semel, from 12.04.2023 to now.
  • Conferences
  1. Attendance at the 1st international scientific agricultural conference Held in the faculty of agricultural science – University of Sulaimani 20-21 November 2013
  2. Attendance at the 2nd scientific agricultural conference Held in the college of Agricultural – University of Duhok, 26-27 April 2016
  3. Khabat Noori-H., Istvan Dalmadi, Laszlo Friedrich, 'White Stripping in Chicken (An Emerging Issue In Poultry Meat)’, Book of Abstracts in 22nd (XXII) Bolyai conference, Conference location, date: Bolyai College, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest-Hungary. 18-19 March 2017. pp. 25. https://www.bolyai.elte.hu/download/bokonf/bk22/rovid%20program%20uj.pdf
  4. Khabat Noori-H.; Laszlo Friedrich; Klara Pasztor-Huszar; Richard Pinter; Adrienn Toth; Ferenc Horvath; Csaba Nemeth; Istvan Dalmadi, Effect of allyl isothiocyanate on some quality attribute of chicken breast and legs meat. Book of abstracts. In Eurofoodchem XIX Conference 2017, Conference location, date: Budapest, Hungary, 04-06-October-2017. pp. 183.
  5. Khabat Noori-H.; Laszlo Friedrich; Klara Pasztor-Huszar; Csaba Nemeth; Istvan Dalmadi, Evaluation of allyl-isothiocyanate effects on physico-chemical characteristics and microbiological activity in ground chicken breast meat during refrigerated storage Book of abstracts. In the 31st EFFoST International Conference (Food Science and Technology Challenges for the
    21st Century - Research to Progress Society),13-16 November 2017 | Melia Sitges, Sitges, Spain.
  6. Khabat NOORI-H.; Laszlo FRIEDRICH; Richard PINTER; Adrien TOTH; Istvan DALMADI, (Monitoring the sensorial e-nose based and color properties of chicken meat containing different concentration of Allyl-isothiocyanate (AITC) during chilling and freezing storage, Alps-Adria Scientific Workshop, main subject: future of food safety and security, 9th - 14th April 2018, Hnanice, Czechia
  7. Khabat N. Hussein; L. Friedrich; G. Kisko; Cs. Nemeth; R. Pinter, E. Ayari, A. Toth; I. Dalmadi (Evaluation of Linalool and Piperine in controlling water holding capacity and microbiological properties of fresh chicken meat in chilling condition). Third International Conference on Food Science and Technology, 29 Nov - 01 Dec 2018, SZIE Buda Campus, Villányi út 35-43, H-1118 Budapest.
  8. Khabat Noori Hussein; Laszlo Friedrich; Gabriella Kisko; Csaba Nemeth; Istvan Dalmadi, Microbiological status, and oxidation properties of minced chicken breast meat treated with different concentration of Allyl isothiocyanate. 16th Wellmann International Scientific Conference, entitled “Hello Modern Agriculture!” 9th May 2018, University Of Szeged Faculty Of Agriculture Hungary.
  9. Khabat Noori Hussein; Molnár Tímea; Richard Pinter; Adrien Toth; Emna Ayari; Laszlo Friedrich; Istvan Dalmadi and Gabriella Kiskó , In Vitro Antimicrobial Activity Of Plant Active Components Against Pseudomonas Lundensis And Listeria Monocytogenes, BiosysFoodEng - 3rd International Conference on Biosystems and Food Engineering. Budapest, Hungary to held on 4th December be 2019.
  10. Attendance at the Agribusiness conference organized by Top Mountain and Funded by USAID-Iraq, Held in Rotana - Erbil, Erbil 26 June 2022.
  11. Attend the conference entitled “Opportunities For Developing Cooperation Between Flanders And Iraqi Kurdistan” organized by Rwanga Foundation, Held in Dedeman - Erbil, Erbil 11 May 2023.
  • Training and Workshops Attended
  1. PTC+ and MENA Scholarship Program, held in Barneveld, the Netherlands 1-26 Feb 2016.
  2. Successfully completed an online non-credit course “The Meat We Eat” authorized by the University of Florida and offered through Coursera on 25-06-2020.
  3. Successfully completed the Global Food Venture Programme – STAGE I Summer School organized by EIT Food from 8th - 17th of June 2020.
  4. Organized the workshop related to World Food Day 16.10.2025, held in the department of food science and technology - College of Agricultural Engineering sciences - University of Duhok.
  • Seminars and Trainings Presented
  1. Seminar for the staff of College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences -UoD about the training about poultry production technology by PTC+ and MENA Scholarship Program that held in Barneveld, the Netherlands 1-26 Feb 2016.
  2. Presenting a training for 53 farmers on the ‘Quality and Safety of Mushroom’ in Shariya and Domiz in Duhok Province –KRG –Iraq, supervised by AVSI organization as Expert in Food Quality and Food Health in a project entitled ‘Resilience building and income access interventions for Yazidi women, youth and smallholder farmers belonging to vulnerable displaced, refugee and host community populations in Duhok Governorate - AID 12055’ from 5.12.2021 to 12.12.2021
  3. Presenting a training for ~200 farmers on ‘Poultry Farming’ in Sumel in Duhok Province –KRG –Iraq, supervised by Save the Children international organization in a project entitled ‘Food Security and livelihood’ for smallholder farmers belonging to vulnerable displaced, refugee and host community populations in Duhok Governorate - from 15.07.2022 to 27.08.2022
  4. Presenting a training for Year 1 for ~75 farmers on the ‘Food Production’ in Shexan, Sinjar and Sumel in Duhok Province –KRG –Iraq, supervised by AVSI international organization in a project entitled ‘Achieving socio-economic stability of returnees, host community and IDP’s in Iraq (ASET)’ for smallholder farmers belonging to vulnerable displaced, refugee and host community populations in Duhok Governorate - from 12.04.2023 to 20.7.2023.
  5. Presenting a training for 21 women on ‘Food processing” in Amedi in Duhok Province –KRG –Iraq, supervised by LWF international organization in a project for smallholder farmers belonging to vulnerable displaced, refugee, and host community populations in Duhok Governorate - from 24.09.2023 to 12.10.2023.
  6. Presenting training for Year 2 for ~75 farmers on the ‘Food Production’ in Shexan, Sinjar and Sumel in Duhok Province –KRG –Iraq, supervised by AVSI international organization in a project entitled ‘Achieving socio-economic stability of returnees, host community and IDP’s in Iraq (ASET)’ for smallholder farmers belonging to vulnerable displaced, refugee and host community populations in Duhok Governorate - from 20.04.2023 to 26.7.2024
  7. Presented a seminar in a workshop entitled: “The role of the FST department in society + World Food Day at a glance”, the workshop related to World Food Day 16.10.2025, held in the department of food science and technology -College of Agricultural Engineering sciences - University of Duhok,

Research

  1. Ibrahim, A. Baker, Khalil, A.D. Oray and Khabat, N. Hussein (2015) Effect of Thyme Leaves Extract on Quality of Lamb and Chicken Meat during Storage, Science Journal of University of Zakho, Vol 3 No 2, https://doi.org/10.25271/2015.3.2.41
  2. Asia M. Hassan, Dejeen A. Mohammed, Khabat N. Hussein and Shekhmous H. Hussen, (2016) Comparison among three Lines of quail for egg quality characters, Science Journal of University of Zakho. Vol. 5 No. 4 (2017): December, 2017 .
  3. Hussein, K.N. and Friedrich, L. and Pintér, R. and Németh, Cs. and Kiskó, G. and Dalmadi, I. (2019) Effect of Linalool and Piperine on Chicken Meat Quality During Refrigerated Conditions. Acta Alimentaria, 48 (4). pp. 431-440. ISSN 0139-3006 (print); 1588-2535. Impact Factor 0.8
  4. Hussein K., Friedrich L., Kisko G., Ayari E., Nemeth C., Dalmadi I. (2019): Use of allyl-isothiocyanate and carvacrol to preserve fresh chicken meat during chilling storage. Czech J. Food Sci., 37: 417-424. Impact Factor 1.4
  5. Khabat Noori Hussein, Tímea Molnár, Richard Pinter, Adrienn Toth, Emna Ayari, Laszlo Friedrich, Istvan Dalmadi, Gabriella Kiskó (2021): In vitro antimicrobial activity of plant active components against Pseudomonas lundensis and Listeria monocytogenes, Progress in Agricultural Engineering Sciences, 16, 163-172
  6. Khabat Noori Hussein, Barbara Csehi, Surányi József, Horváth Ferenc, Gabriella Kiskó, István Dalmadi, László Friedrich, (2021) Effect of α-Terpineol on Chicken Meat Quality during Refrigerated Conditions, Foods, vol 10, issue 8, pp 1855, Impact Factor 4.5.
  7. Zeeshan Siddique, Hiwa M Ahmed, Khabat Noori Hussein, Khulod Ibraheem Hassan, Bashdar I Meena (2022) Herbal medicinal uses and their practices in human health care and livestock from district Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, Veterinary Medicine and Science, P: 2683-2695, 8,6 . Impact Factor 1.8
  8. Shekhmous H. Hussen, Asia M. Hassan, Jameela H. Salih, Khabat N. Hussein (2020) Carcass Characteristics in Three Lines of Quail (Coturnix coturnix spp) and their Crosses. I- The Weights, Syrian Journal of Agricultural Research – SJARp : 323-333
  9. Adrienn Tóth, Cs Németh, R Pintér, E Ayari, Khabat Noori, L Friedrich (2020) Effects of High Hydrostatic Pressure’s Holding Time on Protein Structure of Liquid Egg Products, Hungarian Agricultural Engineering. Issue, 39; 73-79
  10. Rebaz M Mustafa, Bashdar I Meena, Emad K Mohammed, Shalaw Z Sedeeq, Khabat N Hussein, Hiwa M Ahmed, Haval M Abdullah (2023) Estimation of Minor and Trace Elements Concentration and Investigation of Chemical Composition of Kidney Stones in Kurdistan Region. Oriental Journal of Chemistry,V 39.2
  11. KN Hussein, L Friedrich, I Dalmadi, G Kiskó (2023) Evaluation of In Vitro Antimicrobial Activity of Bioactive Compounds and the Effect of Allyl-Isothiocyanate on Chicken Meat Quality under Refrigerated Conditions, Applied Sciences 13 (19), 10953 . Impact Factor 2.5
  12. KN Hussein, T Csurka, BI Meena, HM Ahmed, A Varga-Tóth, K Hidas, .(2023) Combined effect of carvacrol and high hydrostatic pressure on quality attributes of chicken meat during refrigerated conditions, Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture
  13. Bashdar I Meena, Hawbash H Karim, Kurdistan F Aziz, Faten A Chaqmaqchee, Dashne M Kokhasmail, Khabat N Hussein (2024) .Structural Characterization of Salts Using X-ray Fluorescence Technique, Aro-The Scientific Journal Of Koya University 12 (1), 1-7 Impact Factor 1.2

Meat Technology, Food Preservation, and Bioactive Compounds.

Supervising MSc student on Food Safety and Preservation, Dept. of Animal Production and Food Science and Technology- College of Agricultural Engineering Sciences – UoD