Dr. Tan received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2002. He pursued one year of his studies towards his Ph.D. degree at Columbia University, Graduate School of Business, Management Science / Operations Research division, New York, as a Fulbright scholar. He joined Eindhoven University of Technology as a post-doc researcher in 2003 and started working as an assistant professor the same year. In 2010 he has spent an academic term at the University of California, Los Angeles, as a visiting scholar. Dr. Tan is an executive board member of the European Supply Chain Forum. His research interests include inventory theory, capacity management, spare parts management, and supply chain management with a particular focus on the effects of carbon emissions.