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Dr. Oznur Ozdemir Akyildirim

Assistant Professor

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School of Management
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Dr. Oznur Ozdemir Akyildirim

Biography

Dr. Öznur Özdemir Akyıldırım is an Assistant Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management at School of Management, University of Bradford. She has joined Bradford University from Istanbul Technical University in Turkey, where she was working as an associate professor of production and operations management.

Prior to this position, she worked as an assistant professor at Rotterdam School of Management in Erasmus University in the Netherlands and Akdeniz University in Turkey. Between 2019-2020, she also served as a research associate at the Center for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability under the University of Zurich in Switzerland. 

During her PhD, she spent one year in the USA and studied as a visiting scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology.

Her research interests revolve around sustainable operations management and circular economy. She has published her work in highly respected journals such as Production and Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Decision Sciences and Journal of the Operational Research Society.

Research

sustainable operations management, circular economy, closed-loop supply chains, product recovery systems, supplier sustainability, sustainable packaging

Teaching

operations management, supply chain management, closed-loop supply chains, circular economy, operations research, management science

Professional activities

  • Wickham Skinner Best Paper Published in Production and Operations Management, Runner-Up (1 May 2013)

  • Georgia Institute of Technology - Visiting scholar
  • Sabanci University, School of Management - PhD
  • Bogazici (Bosporus) University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences - Bachelor of Arts

  • Istanbul Technical University - Faculty Member - Associate Professor
  • Akdeniz University - Faculty member - Associate Professor
  • Erasmus University - Rotterdam School of Management - Faculty member - Assistant Professor

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