Academic Staff

Dr. Öznur Yurt received her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Başkent University in 2001. During 2001-2003, she worked at Akbank T.A.Ş. Ankara Office as Management Trainee. In 2004, Yurt was awarded the Ankara University MBA with a specialization in marketing. Yurt also holds a Masters Degree in Logistics, awarded in 2005 by Izmir University of Economics where she began working as a Research Assistant in 2003. She also received her PhD degree from the same university in 2007, with a dissertation on “Service supply chain orientation’s impact on industrial service quality” and has since conducted her post doctoral research at The Supply Chain Research Center of Cranfield University in the UK. Her research interests include distribution channels management, services supply chains, purchasing management and industrial marketing management. She continues her academic work at University of Roehampton/London.

Bengü Sevil OFLAÇ received her bachelor’s degree from Izmir Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences in 2003.After getting her MA in marketing from Izmir Dokuz Eylül University ( 2006), she took a scholarship from Izmir University of Economics and became a Phd candidate in Business Administration with Logistics Management major. She took TUBITAK BIDEB scholarship and became a visiting researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA in 2009. She received her PhD degree from Izmir University of Economics in 2011 and was assigned as a Asst. Prof. Dr. in the Department of Logistics Management in 2012.

Assoc. Prof. Muhittin Hakan Demir after receiving his Bachelor's degree in Department of Industrial Engineering in Bilkent University in 1992, pursued his Master's in the same university and the department in 1994. He continued for Ph.D. at the same university and graduated in 2001. Mr. Demir worked at Vestel A.Ş. as an investment speacialist and then Teba Günkol A.Ş. and Yaşar Holding as a team leader. In 2008, he became an Assistant Professor in İzmir University of Economics, Department of Logistics Management. Since 2009, he is also the head of the Department of Logistics Management. His research interest is mostly on supply chain management, logistics and facility location.

Aysu Göçer received her Bachelor degree in Business Administration from Bilkent University, Turkey, in 1999. She has 9 years of professional experience at different sectors and several positions, both in local companies and multinationals. Her main expertise is on purchasing and planning activities of logistics and supply chain management. Most of her working career has developed at Japan Tobacco International, located in Izmir, Turkey. She has completed her Masters degree in Department of Logistics at Izmir University of Economics in December 2010, and her PhD in Business Administration at Dokuz Eylul University in April 2015. She received the title of Associate Professor in November 2020. She is now working as an Assistant Professor in Department of Logistics Management at Izmir University of Economics. Her interest areas include supply chain management, procurement management, global business models, risk management and sustainability.

She graduated from Izmir Ataturk High School in 2001. She received her B.A. degree in Business Administration from Dokuz Eylul University in 2005, and started to work for Izmir University of Economics as a research assistant the same year. After receiving Master of Logistics Management degree from Izmir University of Economics in 2007, she started her PhD in the Department of Business Administration, in a major field of logistics at the same institution. She has taken scholarship for her masters and doctoral studies. During her PhD studies, she was a visiting scholar at Cranfield University (UK), School of Management- Supply Chain Research Centre in 2008. Since 2009, she worked as an instructor in the department of Logistics Management, teaching mainly supply chain management (retail track), principles of logistics and strategic logistics management. As part of post-doctoral research, she was at University of Bremen (Germany) logistics management department in 2014 and 2015. Currently, she is working as an Associate Professor at the department. Her research is focused on supply chain management, retail logistics and retail marketing.

Özgür Özpeynirci received his B.S., M.S. and PhD. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Middle East Technical University in 2002, 2004 and 2008, respectively. He worked as a researcher at the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) between years 2001 and 2007. In February 2008, he joined Izmir University of Economics as an assistant professor. His research interests include multiobjective decision making, combinatorial optimization and scheduling. He received the Best Doctoral Dissertation Award of the International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, in 2011. His publications appeared in international journals including Management Science, European Journal of Operational Research, Naval Research Logistics, and Journal of the Operational Research Society.

Sinem Tokcaer is an assistant professor in the Logistics Management Department at Izmir University of Economics. After earning her PhD in business administration from the Izmir University of Economics, she completed her postdoctoral research at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. She has six years of professional experience in a variety of roles, both with regional companies that offer international logistics services. With a focus on mathematical modeling and data analytics, her primary area of expertise is the design and analysis of logistics systems. She is also a co-founder of a start-up that offers a decision support system for long-haul logistics service providers.