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Prof. Burcu Balçık is a faculty member in the Department of Industrial Engineering (IE) Department at Özyeğin University (OzU). She is the Academic Director of the OzU Sustainability Platform.
Prof. Balçık holds a Ph.D. in IE from the University of Washington, and M.S. and B.S. degrees from Middle East Technical University, IE Department. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University (2008-2009), and a visiting researcher at the Humlog Insititue (2009) and HEC Montreal (2017-208).
Her main research interests are in the areas of humanitarian logistics and disaster management. She focuses on developing data-driven analytical approaches (based on optimization, mathematical modeling simulation, heuristics) to support decision-making for improving the wellbeing of vulnerable community groups and the performance of organizations and systems with nonprofit objectives. She has collaborated with practitioners from a diverse group of governmental and non-governmental organizations in her projects. Her work has appeared in prestigious journals and won prizes (e.g., Production and Operations Management, SEIO-BBVA Foundation).
She is an Associate Editor of Transportation Science and IISE Transactions. Furthermore, she is on the Editorial Boards of 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 taken leading roles at professional societies including the INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research (PSOR) and the EURO Working Group on Humanitarian Operations (EURO-HOpe). She gave keynote talks in prestigious conferences such as EURO 2022 and ICCL 2022.
She is a recipient of the Young Scientist Award from the Turkish Science Academy (2014), and Luk Van Wassenhove Career Award from EURO-HOpe (2023).
Google Scholar profile: link
Available positions:
- Postdoc Position (I am actively looking for a postdoctoral scholar)
- Undergraduate/Graduate students (IE/CS) interested in joining research projects — please contact me.
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Contact information:
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