Academic Staff

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.

Burcin Onder was born in Istanbul in 1977 and graduated from Henry Munro Middle School (Canada), Gloucester High School (Canada) and Adnan Menderes Anatolian High School (Istanbul). She studied Business Administration and received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Dokuz Eylul University, Department of Business Administration in 1999. She worked as a Management Trainee right after she graduated. Until the end of 2002 she served as an assistant director and director within the Corporate and Commercial Marketing departments in HSBC. She worked as a founder and an administrator in Green Car Operational Fleet Rental Company for many years. In the same years she had also been employed as sales and marketing coordinator as in the automotive industry. She received her master’s degree in business administration from Izmir University of Economics in 2007. At present she is at dissertation stage in the doctoral program at Ege University.

Cigdem Kentmen-Cin received her bachelor's degree from Istanbul University, Department of International Relations in 1999. She received her master's degree in the European Studies program at Bahcesehir University, where she also worked as a research assistant, in 2002. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Political Science from the University of Missouri, Columbia in 2007. In the same year, she started working as an Assistant Professor at Izmir University of Economics. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2012 and to Professor in 2018. She was awarded the Outstanding Young Scientist Award (GEBIP) in the field of political science by the Turkish Academy of Sciences in 2014. Dr. Kentmen Çin's research areas include public opinion, survey methodology, and voter behavior. Her publications can be found in leading academic journals such as Political Research Quarterly, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, European Union Politics, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of European Social Policy, and Environment & Behavior. She has been a member of the editorial board of the journal European Union Politics since 2011. She also serves as the work package leader and senior researcher in the project titled RAISE (Recognition and Acknowledgement of Injustice to Strengthen Equality), funded by Horizon Europe. From 2018 to 2024, she served as the Vice Rector for Academic Affairs at Izmir University of Economics.