Zehranaz Dönmez Varol
Contact
Arcisstraße 21, 80333 Munich, Germany
Building 505, Room 1545
E-Mail: zehranaz.varol@tum.de
Short Biography
Zehranaz Dönmez Varol is a postdoctoral researcher at the Professorship of Business Analytics & Intelligent Systems at TUM School of Management. She received her Ph.D. in 2024 from Bilkent University, Department of Industrial Engineering. Her research focuses on addressing logistics challenges in uncertain environments, with a particular emphasis on humanitarian and healthcare applications. She received the EURO Wisdom YoungWomen4OR award in 2024.
In her spare time, Zehra enjoys making pottery and spending time with her cat.
Research Interests
- Humanitarian logistics
- Donation management
- Healthcare management
- Fairness in resource allocation
- Decision-making under uncertainty
- Multi-stage decision-making
Publications
- Dönmez, Z., Kara, B. Y., Karsu, Ö., & Saldanha-da-Gama, F. (2021). Humanitarian facility location under uncertainty: Critical review and future prospects. Omega, 102393.
- Dönmez, Z., Turhan, S., Karsu, Ö., Kara, B. Y., Karaşan, O. (2022). Fair Allocation of Personal Protective Equipment to Health Centers during Early Phases of a Pandemic. Computers & Operations Research, 141: 105690.