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Burcu Balçık* is a faculty member in the Department of Industrial Engineering (IE) Department at Özyeğin University (OzU), where she also serves as the Academic Director of the OzU Sustainability Platform.
She earned her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Washington, with M.S. and B.S. degrees from Middle East Technical University, IE Department. She held a postdoctoral research position at Northwestern University (2008-2009) and was a visiting researcher at the HUMLOG Institute (2009), HEC Montreal (2017-2018), Zero Hunger Lab at Tilburg University (2024-2025).
Her research focuses on humanitarian supply chains and disaster management, where she develops data-driven analytical approaches—such as optimization, mathematical modeling, simulation, and heuristics—to improve decision-making for better disaster preparedness and response. She has actively collaborated with governmental and nongovernmental organizations on various projects. Her research has been published in leading journals and has received prestigious awards, including the Production and Operations Management Society prize and the SEIO-BBVA Foundation award.
Dr. Balçık is an Associate Editor for Transportation Science and IISE Transactions and serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Production and Operations Management, Transportation Research Part E, Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Sustainability Analytics and Modeling, and Journal of Business Logistics.
She has played leadership roles in professional societies such as INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research (PSOR) and the EURO Working Group on Humanitarian Operations (EURO-HOpe). She has delivered keynote addresses at prestigious conferences, including EURO 2022, ICCL 2022, and EURO-HOpe 2024. Among her honors are the Young Scientist Award from the Turkish Science Academy (2014) and the Luk Van Wassenhove Career Award from EURO-HOpe (2023).
Dr. Balçık is a member of Science Academy of Turkey (December 2024 -). She serves on the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality’s Earthquake Science Council (February 2023 – ).
* Note: My name is pronounced “Bour-joo BAL-chuk,” with a soft “j” as in “Jean” and “ç” as in “chess.” In publications, my last name appears as “Balcik” without Turkish characters.
Curriculum Vitae: BBalcikCV0125
Google Scholar profile: link
ORCID-ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3575-1846
Contact:
Industrial Engineering Department
Nişantepe Mah. Orman Sok. No: 34-36
Cekmekoy, 34794 Istanbul, Turkey
E-mail: burcu.balcik(at)ozyegin.edu.tr
Phone: + 90 (216) 564 9390