Ph.D., Operational Research/Management Science, University of Southampton, UK, 2015
Title: Heterogeneous Location- and Pollution-Routing Problems
Supervisors: Tolga Bektaş, Ola Jabali, Gilbert Laporte
This thesis has introduced and studied new classes of heterogeneous vehicle routing problems with or without location and pollution considerations. It has developed powerful evolutionary and adaptive large neighborhood search based metaheuristics capable of solving a wide variety of such problems, and has provided several important managerial insights.
This Ph.D. thesis has received the Doctoral Award from the British Operational Research Society in 2015 and Postgraduate Publication Awards from the University of Southampton.
It has given rises to five journal publications:
Koç, Ç., Bektaş, T., Jabali, O., Laporte, G., 2016 Thirty Years of Heterogeneous Vehicle Routing, European Journal of Operational Research, 249, 1--21.
Koç, Ç., Bektaş, T., Jabali, O., Laporte, G., 2015. A Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithm for Heterogeneous Fleet Vehicle Routing Problems with Time Windows, Computers & Operations Research, 64, 11--27.
Koç, Ç., Bektaş, T., Jabali, O., Laporte, G., 2016. The Fleet Size and Mix Location-Routing Problem with Time Windows: Formulations and a Heuristic Algorithm, European Journal of Operational Research, 248, 33--51.
Koç, Ç., Bektaş, T., Jabali, O., Laporte, G., 2014. The Fleet Size and Mix Pollution-Routing Problem, Transportation Research Part B, 70, 239--254.
Koç, Ç., Bektaş, T., Jabali, O., Laporte, G., 2016. The Impact of Depot Location, Fleet Composition and Routing on Emissions in City Logistics, Transportation Research Part B, 84, 81--102. (This paper has been listed in the INFORMS Editor's Cut)
M.Sc., Industrial Engineering, Selçuk University, Türkiye, 2012
B.Sc., Industrial Engineering, Selçuk University, Türkiye, 2010
Associate Professor, 08/2024-present
Department of Industrial Engineering, Hacettepe University, Türkiye
Associate Professor, 05/2019-08/2024
Department of Business Administration, Social Sciences University of Ankara, Türkiye
Founder, 03/2022-10/2023
Rotamopt, Inc., ODTU TEKNOKENT, Türkiye
Assistant Professor, 11/2017-04/2019
Department of Business Administration, Social Sciences University of Ankara, Türkiye
Postdoctoral Fellow, 10/2015-06/2017
HEC Montreal and CIRRELT - Interuniversity Research Center on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation, Canada
Visiting Researcher, 03/2014-06/2014
HEC Montreal and CIRRELT - Interuniversity Research Center on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation, Canada
Research and Teaching Assistant, 10/2012-09/2015
Southampton Business School, CORMSIS - Center for Operational Research, Management Science and Information Systems, University of Southampton, UK
Research and Teaching Assistant, 03/2011-09/2012
Department of Industrial Engineering, Selçuk University, Türkiye
Editorial Board Member, 2025-present
Computers & Operations Research
Collaborating Member, 2024-present
CIRRELT - Interuniversity Research Center on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation, Canada
International Expert Panel Member, 2025-present
SRDA - Slovak Research and Development Agency, Slovakia
Working Group Member, 2024-present
COST 22137 ROAR-NET Action, EU
Working Group Member, 2025
The Integrated, Efficient, Safe, Environmentally Friendly Intelligent Transport Systems Technology Roadmap
Science, Technology and Innovation Policies Board, The Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye
Advisory Board Member, 2022-2025
Engineering Research Group (ARDEB MAG)
TÜBİTAK - The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye
Lecturer, Part-time, 2018-2025
Department of Business Administration & Department of Industrial Engineering
TOBB University of Economics and Technology
Social Sciences University of Ankara, 2017-2022
Associate Dean I Faculty of Political Science, 2019-2022
Director I Department of International Trade and Logistics Management, 2019-2022
Member of the Faculty Board I Faculty of Political Science, 2019-2022
Member of the Faculty Executive Board I Faculty of Political Science, 2017-2019
Deputy Head, Department of Business Administration, 2017-2019
Member of the BAP (Scientific Research Projects Office), 2018-2019
Consultant, 2025-present
Turkish Railway Transportation (TCDD Taşımacılık A.Ş.)
Consultant, 2024-present
KOSGEB - Small and Medium Enterprises Development Organization of Türkiye
Consultant, 2024
TÜÇA - Turkish Environmental Agency
DEHUKAM - Ankara University National Center for the Sea and the Maritime Law
I organized two thematic workshops on transportation & logistics on 2019 and 2020 at ASBU. These events hosted leading academicians in the application of operations research to transportation and logistics problems. It allowed researchers to present current research and stimulate collaboration.
Reviewer for national and international R&D projects:
TÜBİTAK - The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye, 2018-to date.
SRDA - Slovak Research and Development Agency, 2025-to date.
NSERC - Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, 2022-to date.
ANID - National Research and Development Agency of Chile, 2021-to date.
Reviewer for 50+ journals, including;
Annals of Operations Research
Computers & Industrial Engineering
Computers & Operations Research
Expert Systems with Application
EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics
European Journal of Operational Research
Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
International Journal of Production Economics
International Journal of Production Research
INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research
International Transactions in Operational Research
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
Journal of the Operational Research Society
Naval Research Logistics
Networks
Neural Computing and Applications
Omega
Operational Research
OR Spectrum
RAIRO-Operations Research
TOP: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research
Transportation Letters
Transportation Research Part A
Transportation Research Part B
Transportation Research Part C
Transportation Research Part D
Transportation Research Part E
Transportation Science