Gokcay Balci

Gokcay Balci is currently working as Assistant Professor in Logistics and Supply Chain at the University of Bradford. Previously, he worked as a senior lecturer at the University of Huddersfield between July 2019 and January 2023. Before joining the academia, he worked in the shipping industry as a ship agent and broker and in the food industry as an export manager of a food supplier company. His research focuses on digitalisation, sustainability, resilience, and decarbonisation domains in the logistics and supply chain management subject. His research has been published in high tier journals such as Transportation Research Part E, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Computers in Industry, and IJPDLM. He has received a research funding (British Academy / Leverhulme Small Research Grant) in the subject of “Freight transport resilience in the UK in the post-COVID-19 and post-BREXIT era”. He is a chartered member of CILT and the Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.