She is also currently on her sabbatical leave and visiting Department of Business Administration, METU. She received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Middle East Technical University. Her main research focuses on disassembly line design, assembly line design, production planning, design of reverse logistics networks and design of after-sales networks. She teaches PhD, PMBA, MBA and undergraduate level courses in operations management, business process analysis and design, introduction to management, business simulation and data analysis, operations and decision systems, and advanced Excel for managers. She is the recipient of the second place of the Sabancı University 2011 graduating class teaching awards.