My research focuses on developing innovative, efficient new algorithms and methods for emerging logistics applications. Much of my research is inspired by pressing societal issues, including the renewable energy transition, the need for greening transportation, the adoption of AI in business, and the digitalization of supply chain management and e-commerce. I am practically driven but methodology oriented and therefore combine rigorous domain knowledge with mathematical programming and AI-based decision-making. 

I am the advisor of the following PhD students:
- Sifanur Celik (Service-Oriented Vehicle Routing under Uncertainty)

- Bartu Arslan (Fulfillment and Replenishment in Omnichannel Retail)

- Arya Zamal (Emerging Logistics in Megacities)

- Miguel Chastre (Cyclic Inventory control and transport)

- Casper Bazelmans (Algorithms for Road Transport Decision Support )

- Neslihan Cevik (Algorithms for Road Transport Decision Support )

- Gerben Ouwersloot (Multi-Stakeholder Hydrogen Network Design}

- Ling Li (Integrated Energy and Logistics Management for Electric Freight Transport) 

- Sezen Ece Kayacik (Stochastic Optimization for Green Hydrogen Logistics - University of Groningen)

- Umur Hasturk (Stochastic Optimization for Green Hydrogen Logistics - University of Groningen)

I am an assistant professor of transport and logsitics at the Eindhoven University of Technology. I obtained my Bsc and Msc (2015, cum laude) and PhD (2020) in Operations Research from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. My PhD, with advisors prof. dr. Iris Vis and dr. Evrim Ursavas, focussed on the design of exact and heuristics algorithms for optimization problems in Distributed Logistics.  I was a visiting research scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Loyola University Chicago. My research is internationally recognized and led to publications in, amongst others, Transportation Science, Operations Research, and Transportation Research Part C.