Ali Özdemir, PhD, Assistant Professor of Applied Sciences, holds a PhD in Business Administration from Erciyes University, an MSc in Statistics from Gazi University and a BSc in Business Engineering from ITU. He has worked as an academic in various universities and countries since 1996. Since 2018, he has held the position of Full Professor in the field of Operations and Production Management. He attained his Associate Professorship in the same field in Turkey in 2012.