Burcu Balçik

Burcu Balçık received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (IE) from the University of Washington in 2008, and B.S. and M.S. degrees from Middle East Technical University’s IE Department in 2001 and 2003, respectively. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University (2008-2009), a visiting researcher at the HumLog Institute (2009), and a visiting professor at HEC Montreal (2017-2018).

Dr. Balçık’s main research interests are in the areas of humanitarian logistics and disaster management. She focuses on improving the performance of organizations and systems that focus on social good by using operations research methods. She has collaborated with various non-governmental organizations in her projects. Her work has appeared in prestigious journals such as Production and Operations Management, Transportation Science, IISE Transactions.

Dr. Balçık is an Associate Editor of Transportation Science. She is also 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. Dr. Balçık has taken several leading roles at professional societies including the INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research (PSOR) and the EURO Working Group on Humanitarian Operations (EURO-HOpe). She is a recipient of the Young Scientist Award from the Turkish Science Academy (BAGEP 2014).

Dr. Balçık joined Özyeğin University's IE Department as an Assistant Professor in 2011. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2015 and Professor in 2022. She has been serving as the Academic Director of the Sustainability Platform since July 2022.