Professor Emrah Demir

Professor of Operational Research, The PARC Professor of Manufacturing and Logistics

Cardiff Business School

: demire@cardiff.ac.uk
: +44 (0)29 2087 0971
: C26, Aberconway Building, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU

: Available for postgraduate supervision

Emrah Demir is a Professor of Operational Research in the Logistics and Operations Management Section of the Cardiff Business School.

Before joining Cardiff University, Emrah worked as Assistant Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands). He holds BEng and MSc degrees in Industrial Engineering from Baskent University (Turkey), and a PhD in Management Science from University of Southampton.

Emrah's current research interests are positioned within the areas of green logistics and operational research. He has mainly worked in the application of mathematical optimisation to real-life freight transportation problems. He possesses expertise in quantitative and analytical methods, such as exact and approximation methods. More specifically, Emrah writes mathematical equations (and derive analytical solutions) to analyse and understand highly complex decision-making problems in the context of logistics and transportation. He has published more than 40 journal articles and five book chapters and has currently more than 4,000 citations (h-index 25) to his publications on Google Scholar. He also serves as a reviewer in several international journals of operational research, transportation, and logistics. Emrah has also been involved in and obtained several external grants from different funding bodies which can be found under Research section.

Emrah has experience in teaching Logistics and Transportation, Operations Management, Project Management and Operational Research. Additionally, he supervises undergraduate and postgraduate students from a variety of academic backgrounds on a range of related subjects, including green vehicle routing, intermodal transportation, integrated transportation and etc.

Emrah has the following editorial roles:

Area Editor (Logistics and Supply Chain Management) of Journal of Heuristics
Associate Editor of IMA Journal of Management Mathematics
Associate Editor of Frontiers in Future Transportation - Freight Transport and Logistics
Associate Editor of OR Spectrum Journal

Emrah is one of the recipients of 2021 Transportation Science Meritorious Service Award.

Qualifications

2012 - PhD in Management Science, Southampton University, Southampton, United Kingdom (academic scholarship)
2008 - MSc in Industrial Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey (academic scholarship)
2005 - BSc (4 years) in Industrial Engineering, Baskent University, Ankara, Turkey (partial academic scholarship)

Professional memberships

Member of COPIOR (The Committee of Professors of Operational Research)
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Member of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT)
Co-Director PARC Institute of Manufacturing, Logistics and Inventory
Member of Logistics and Systems Dynamics Group (LSDG)

Academic positions

2021 - present: Professor of Operational Research
2019 - 2021: Reader in Management Science
2016 - 2019: Senior Lecturer in Management Science
2013-2016: Assistant Professor, School of Industrial Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
2012-2013: Postdoc Researcher, School of Industrial Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
2009-2012: PhD Candidate, Southampton Business School, University of Southampton
2005-2009: Research/Teaching Assistant, Department of Industrial Engineering, Baskent University, Turkey

Committees and reviewing

Area Editor (Logistics and Supply Chain Management) of Journal of Heuristics (2018 - )
Associate Editor of OR Spectrum Journal (2021 - )
Associate Editor of IMA Journal of Management Mathematics (2019 - )
Associate Editor of Frontiers in Future Transportation - Freight Transport and Logistics (2019 - )

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Current teaching commitments

BS3010 Analysing and Improving Operations, Module Lecturer
MSc Dissertation Supervision

Previous teaching commitments

MSc Grand Challenges in Logistics and Operations Management
BSc Advanced Operations Management (Year 3)
BSc Operations Management (Year 2)
MBA Strategic Operations Management
MBA Dissertation Supervision

Previous academic leadership commitments

Logistics and Operations Management (LOM) section - Deputy Head of Section (Learning & Teaching) (August 2021 - October 2022)
Logistics and Operations Management (LOM) section - Senior Coordinator of Learning & Teaching (October 2020 - July 2021)
Programme Director of MSc Logistics and Operations Management (August 2018 -September 2022)

Research interests

Green Logistics
Vehicle Routing Problem
Intermodal Transportation
Integrated Transportation
City Logistics
Operational Research/Optimisation

Research grants

Colombia-UK PACT Programme (2022-2023): GIRO ZERO - Steering the Colombian road freight sector towards a zero emissions strategy: Giro-Zero
Ocado Group plc (2022): Operational excellence in logistics and supply chain management: Executive training
Colombia-UK PACT Programme (2021-2022): GIRO ZERO - Steering the Colombian road freight sector towards a zero emissions strategy: Giro-Zero
Ocado Group plc (2021): Operational excellence in logistics and supply chain management: Executive training
Ocado Group plc (2019-2020): Developing and testing analytical models to measure and optimise food waste in the Ocado supply chain
ESRC - Cheshire & Warrington LEP (2019): Analytical support for local industrial strategies: Researcher placements in local enterprise partnerships
Ocado Group plc (2019-2021): Knowledge Transfer Partnership Project: Enhancing the routing system to allow optimisation of a country-wide home delivery network: KTP
CILT Seed corn funding (2018-2019): Truck Platooning
Ocado Group plc (2018): Addressing Salad Supply Chains
ESRC/Panalpina (2017-2018): Conquering the last mile
ESRC/Panalpina (2017-2018): Same day, same way?

Current PhD students

First Supervisor, Zhuowu Zhang - "The role of drivers in green road freight transportation"
First Supervisor, Xinyue Hao - "Human-machine collaborative decision-making in supply networks"
Third supervisor, Ruikai Sun - "Estimation of port emissions"

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the areas of:

Green logistics
Vehicle routing problem
Intermodal transportation
Integrated freight and public transportation
The uberization of last-mile transportation
Autonomous vehicles
Impact of 3D printing on transportation
Combinatorial optimization
Multi-objective optimization
Heuristics and metaheuristics methods

Current supervision

Zhuowu Zhang

Research student

Xinyue Hao

Research student

Past projects

Second supervisor, Violina Sarma - "Collaborative decision-making for hierarchical forecasts: A multi-sector perspective" (awarded 2021)
Co-supervisor, Ghilas Veaceslav - The Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows and Scheduled Lines: Models and Algorithms (awarded 2016)