Dr. Çağrı Koç is an Associate Professor in Department of Business Administration at Social Sciences University of Ankara (ASBU). Prior to joining the ASBU in 2017, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at HEC Montreal and at CIRRELT. He received his Ph.D. degree (2015) in Operational Research/Management Science, under supervision of Tolga Bektaş, Gilbert Laporte and Ola Jabali, from the Southampton Business School of University of Southampton. He is the recipient of the Doctoral Award from the Operational Research Society (2015), the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) CAREER Award (2019) and Postgraduate Publication Awards from the University of Southampton. He has taught undergraduate and gradute courses at University of Southampton, ASBU, and TOBB University of Economics and Technology, and has given many seminars at prestigious academic institutions. His research mainly focuses on the application of mathematical and metaheuristic optimization techniques to transportation, logistics and supply chain management problems, more specifically to vehicle routing and scheduling problems. He has published in leading academic journals including Transportation Research Part B and C, European Journal of Operational Research, Computers and Operations Research, the Journal of the Operational Research Society, International Journal of Production Economics, International Transactions in Operational Research and among others. He is also the coordinator of annual ASBU Transportation & Logistics Workshops.