Nalan Gulpinar

Dr Nalan Gulpinar is a Professor of Operations Research and Business Analytics at Durham University Business School. Previously, she held academic roles as an Associate Professor at Warwick Business School and as a Research Fellow/Lecturer at Imperial College London's Department of Computing.

• Current: Professor at Durham University Business School
• Former: Associate Professor at Warwick Business School
• Former: Research Fellow/Lecturer at Imperial College London

Education:

• BSc in Mathematics
• MSc in Mathematics
• PhD in Operational Research (Brunel University)

Research Focus: Specializes in decision-making under uncertainty, integrating business analytics for risk management applications across supply chain networks, finance, revenue management, and healthcare systems. Her work emphasizes data-driven optimization and quantitative modeling.

Publication Trends: Recent research explores dynamic resource allocation in pharmaceutical R&D, sustainable supply chain design for chemical production, and airline capacity planning through stochastic optimization frameworks. These works demonstrate cross-sectoral applications of operations research methodologies.