Lijia Tan joined TU/e as an assitant professor in 2020. She is working in the Operations, Planning, Accounting and Control (OPAC) group at the department of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences (IE&IS). 

In 2015, she recieved her Ph.D. in Economics from Xiamen University in China. After graduation, her research project was funded by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and she had worked at Cologne University in Germany for two years as a postdoctoral researcher. Afterwards, she started working in OPAC group as a postdoctroal reseacher utill 2019. Before rejoining TU/e, she was working at Tianjin University in China. 

Lijia's research interest is in the area of Behavioral Operations Management.

She conducts labortoary experiments to observe human decisions and uses the data to test her behavioral modes in Operations Management.

Specifically, her primary interests are at the procurement auctions and bargainings, incomplete contracts and moral harzad problems. Her current research focus on individual decisions under uncertainty, human decisions with the decision support system, and the interactions between human decision makers and new technologies, e.g., AI, big data analysis.