About
Dr Iris has been an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in Operations and Supply Chain Management at the University of Liverpool Management School (ULMS), joined the school in August 2019. Prior to joining ULMS, Iris was a postdoctoral research fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He obtained a PhD in Management Science from Technical University of Denmark in 2016 and a MSc and BSc in Industrial Engineering in 2012.
Çağatay (Pronunciation: Chatai) Iris has research interests in transportation, logistics, energy, shared economy, alternative fuels and energy management, particularly focusing on freight transportation, next-generation ports, shipping, hinterlands, urban logistics, ride-hailing, bike-sharing, crowdshipping, charging, electrification, district heat networks and microgrids. He mostly uses mathematical optimisation and data analytics methods to improve performance of these systems. He has also undertaken technoeconomic analyses of the energy supply chain and route to market for alternative fuels. His research papers are published in journals such as European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, OMEGA: The International Journal of Management Science, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Annals of Operations Research, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Computers & Industrial Engineering, etc.
Dr Iris served as the Director of Studies (DoS) for the MSc in Business Analytics and Big Data (BABD) between 2022 and 2025 and teaches both on campus and online. Iris served as the Postgraduate taught (PGT) lead in Operations and Supply Chain Management group for three years until 2025.
Dr. Iris is a senior editorial board member of Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review with Associate Editor duties, being on board since 2017 and Multimodal Transportation since 2022. He is an associate editor of European Journal of Industrial Engineering (EJIE) since 2023. He has participated in projects funded by The Innovation Launchpad Network+, Innovate UK (KTP), Danish Maritime Fund and EU such as Smart Load, Danish Maritime Cluster. He has also participated in the organization of Maritime Public Leaders Programme of Maritime and Port Authority (MPA) of Singapore. He has been involved in industrial projects with maritime industry, distribution centres and automotive industry.
News from Iris:
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I am organising and leading following Special issues and special sessions:
1) Special Issue at Annals of Operations Research, 2025
Call for Papers - Innovations in Maritime and Port Logistics: Optimization and Data-Driven Decision Making. We, as guest editors, invite submissions to this special issue. There might be an extension to the submission deadline.
You can contact me at c.iris@liverpool.ac.uk for more details.
https://link.springer.com/collections/jicdaeadji
2) Special Issue at Transportation Research Part C, 2025, To be announced soon
3) Special Issue at Transportation Research Part E, 2026, To be announced soon
4) Call for Papers and Presentations
https://ifors2026.at/home/
I am organising and chairing session: Green and Digital Maritime and Port Logistics at The 24th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies
12-17 July 2026, Vienna, Austria.
Authors can submit their papers at https://ifors2026.at/home/
Prizes or Honours
- Global partnership fund (University of Liverpool and McMaster University, 2024)