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Tolga Bektas

Professor Tolga Bektas
BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA

Professor of Logistics Management
Operations and Supply Chain Management
Part of
School of Management
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Contact

T.Bektas@liverpool.ac.uk

+44 (0)151 795 7409

Professional Activities

Conference Roles

  • Last-Mile Logistics in Urban Areas at 9th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems (SMARTGREENS2020), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication, 2020)
  • “Green” Vehicle Routing at International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL 2016), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Lisbon, Portugal, 2016)
  • The elegant waltz of a vehicle fleet: Reducing pollution and costs in routing at VeRoLog 2015, Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Vienna, Austria, 2015)
  • Green Vehicle Routing (Tutorial) at Joint International Meeting of the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) and the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), by Invitation (Montreal, Canada, 2015)
  • Co-chair and organiser: International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL 2017) (Southampton, England, 2017)
  • Co-chair and organiser: EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization (Southampton, England, 2013)

Editorships

  • Computers & Operations Research (Editorial Advisory Board, 2016 - present)
  • Networks (Associate Editor, 2023 - present)
  • Transportation Science (Associate Editors, 2021 - present)
  • Computers & Operations Research (Area Editor, 2013 - 2016)

Examination Roles

  • University of Southampton, PhD (2023)
  • Technical University of Denmark, PhD (2023)
  • University of Edinburgh, PhD (2022)
  • Lancaster University, PhD (2022)
  • University of Southampton, PhD (2022)
  • University of Warwick, Warwick Business School (UG, 2020 - 2024)
  • Lancaster University, PhD (2020)
  • Pompeu Fabra University, PhD (2020)
  • Liverpool John Moores University, PhD (2019)
  • Lancaster University, PhD (2019)
  • University of Kent, PhD (2016)
  • Molde University College, PhD (2015)
  • University of the West of England, PhD (2013)
  • Lancaster University, PhD (2012)
  • University of Cambridge, PhD (2011)
  • University of Edinburgh, Management Science (UG, 2014 - 2018)
  • University of Surrey, Project Management (PGT, 2009 - 2013)

External Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Treasurer, Southern OR Group (SORG), The OR Society (2008 - 2018)

Internal Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Associate Dean International (School / Institute, 2023 - present)
  • Director of Research, Operations and Supply Chain (Department, 2019 - 2022)

Professional Body Memberships

  • Academy of Management (Professional, 2024 - present)
  • British Academy of Management (Professional, 2023 - present)
  • Higher Education Academy (Fellow, 2009 - present)
  • The OR Society (Member, 2000 - 2023)