Tamer joined ESMT European School of Management and Technology in 2015 as a professor of management science and is the first holder of the Michael Diekmann Chair in Management Science. In 2017 he was appointed as the director of research. He previously was a professor of operations management and a Desautels Faculty Scholar at McGill University in Quebec, Canada. Tamer received his PhD, MPhil, and MSc from Columbia University, New York, USA.