Zehranaz Dönmez Varol's Web Page

Research

Research Interests

  • Humanitarian logistics
  • Donation management
  • Healthcare management
  • Fairness in resource allocation
  • Facility location
  • Stochastic optimization

Work Experience

  • Postdoctoral researcher (2025), Professorship of Business Analytics & Intelligent Systems, Operations & Technology Department, School of Management, Technical University of Munich, Germany.
    • Project title: User-centered management of mobile healthcare services in uncertain environments.

Published Papers

  • 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.

Submitted Papers

  • Dönmez, Z., Kara, B. Y., Karsu, Ö., Van Wassenhove, L. N. (Under review). Revisiting Disaster Response Framework from an OR/OM Perspective: Insights from the Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes (Link).
  • Dönmez, Z., Saldanha-da-Gama, F., Karsu, Ö., Kara, B. Y., Ayyıldız, M., Uslu, Z. B. (Under review). Humanitarian Logistics: How fair is fairness? (Link)

Awards

  • YoungWomen4OR Award, EURO Wisdom Forum, 2024.
  • Post-doctoral scholarship holder, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of T¨urkiye, International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program (TÜB¨İTAK-2219), 2025.
  • Doctoral scholarship holder, The Scientific and Technological Research Council of T¨urkiye, The Support Programme for Scientific and Technological Research Projects (TÜBİTAK-1001), 2020-2023.

Selected Presentations

  • Humanitarian Supply Chain Planning: The Effect of Location Decisions on Fair Allocation of Donations
    • 33rd EURO Conference, Copenhagen/Denmark, June 2024.
    • ISOLDE XVI & EWGLA XXVIII Conference Program, Kaiserslautern, Baden-baden/Germany, June 2023.
    • EURO Summer Institute on Location Science, Edinburg/Scotland, June 2022.
    • ISOLDE XV & EWGLA XXVI Online Conference, July 2021.
  • Fair Allocation of Donations in the Post-disaster Response Phase
    • Congress on Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Denizli/Turkiye, October 2022.
    • The European Working Group on Humanitarian Operations (EURO HOpe) Mini Conference, İstanbul/Turkiye, October 2022.
  • Humanitarian Facility Location under Uncertainty
    • Congress on Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Eskişehir/Turkiye, June 2018.

Workshops Attended

  • Participant, ROAR-NET Training School on Computational Modelling of Combinatorial Optimisation Problems, Belvaux/Luxembourg, June 2025.
  • Participant, EURO PhD Summer School on MCDA/MCDM, Ankara/Turkiye, July 2022.
  • Laureate, EURO Summer Institute on Location Science, Edinburgh/Scotland, June 2022.

Visiting Positions

  • Visiting researcher, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Economics, Econometric Institute, The Netherlands, September 2023-December 2023.