Prof. Dr. Turan Paksoy received his B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Gazi University, M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering and Ph.D. degree in Production Management from Selçuk University in 2004. He received the Associate’s degree in Production Management in 2008 from National Academic Council of Turkey. In 2015, he was promoted to full professor at Selçuk University. Dr. Paksoy currently has been working as a faculty member at Konya Technical University, Department of Industrial Engineering. He attended to London Kingston University as visiting professor in 2015. Dr. Paksoy also has the affiliation of founding director of KTO Karatay University Lean & Green SCM Lab since 2017. He has been honored with being chosen for “Global Sustainable Leaders” by U.S Green Chamber of Commerce in 2018. Dr. Paksoy has over 200 published papers (about 35 papers in SCI indexed journals). His papers appear frequently at reputable and internationally recognized journals such as Computers andIndustrial Engineering, European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Research, International Journal of Production Research. His academic studies have been cited about 800 times in SCI journals. Dr. Paksoy current academic interest includes Lean Manufacturing, Green Logistics, Closed Loop Supply Chain Management, and Fuzzy Decision Making.
G.-W. Weber is a Professor at Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland, at Faculty of Engineering Management, in the Chair of Marketing and Economic Engineering. His research is on mathematics, OR (operational research), finance, economics, optimization and control, neuro- and bio-sciences, data mining, analytics, AI, education and development. He received Diploma and Doctorate in Mathematics, and Economics / Business Administration, at RWTH Aachen, and Habilitation at TU Darmstadt (Germany). He replaced Professorships at University of Cologne, and TU Chemnitz, Germany. At Institute of Applied Mathematics, MET