Mobility and transport
Dynamic vehicle routing, shared mobility, waterborne transport, and fleet management under uncertainty.
This page presents my approach to research supervision, the academic and applied settings in which I supervise, and practical guidance for current and prospective students.
Approach and experience
Research contexts, supervision philosophy, doctoral supervision, completed theses, and supporting academic infrastructure.
Expectations and Thesis Toolkit
Understand what you can expect from me, what I expect from you, and where to find practical help throughout the thesis journey.
Supervision profile
Supervision approach
I supervise research as a development process: clear expectations, early problem framing, inspectable decisions, regular feedback, and increasing ownership by the researcher. My role is to develop independent researchers who can formulate, implement, test, and communicate their own scientific contribution.
Research environments
My BSc, MSc, and PhD supervision spans transportation, logistics, warehousing, routing, fleet management, optimization, and AI for operations. Many bachelor’s and master’s projects are conducted with companies.
Logistics systems
Warehousing, production logistics, distribution, and company-connected improvement projects.
Emerging delivery systems
Drones, collaborative delivery modes, and heterogeneous transport resources.
Operational decision methods
Optimization, machine learning, simulation, dashboards, and research software for operational decisions.
Applied projects connect academic work with organizations in public transport, high-tech manufacturing, warehousing, engineering, consumer goods, and logistics. The scientific standard remains the same: a clear problem, a transparent method, and evidence strong enough to support the conclusion.
Thesis overview
Theses by year and role
MSc BSc PhD
2020 —
1
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2022 —
1
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2023
6 2
3 5
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2024
4
5 1
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2025
8 2
4 1
1
2026
3 1
2 1
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Current
6
2 4
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51 completed · 12 current. Current projects are aggregated to preserve privacy.
Doctoral supervision
PhD · 2024–present
Abbas Maleki
Design and Optimization of Drone-based Medical Items Transportation.
Ongoing doctoral co-supervision · University of Twente · Project profile ↗
PhD · 2025
Cigdem Karademir
Synchronized Two-Echelon Routing Problems: Exact and Approximate Methods for Multimodal City Logistics.
Completed doctoral co-supervision (copromotor) · Delft University of Technology · Thesis ↗
Completed theses
The complete thesis archive groups publicly recorded work by supervisory role and year. Current projects remain aggregated here to preserve student privacy.
Reusable supervision infrastructure
The supervision, writing, milestone, template, and supporting resources turn recurring guidance into a public, inspectable system. Together they make expectations explicit, support consistent feedback, and give students a practical route from problem framing to final presentation.