Cemalettin Öztürk received his PhD degree in Industrial Engineering from Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey. His research interests include advanced planning and scheduling, lot sizing and scheduling, assembly line design and scheduling , flexible manufacturing systems, mathematical and constraint programming, simulation of manufacturing and service systems. He has published papers and presentations in national and international meetings. He is actively involved in managing technology development projects with industrial and software companies. As a member of Optimisation & Decision Analytics program, he is involved in "DISCUS-The DIStributed Core for unlimited bandwith supply for all Users and Services" project. DISCUS will analyse, design, and demonstrate a complete end-to-end architecture and technologies for an economically viable, energy efficient and environmentally sustainable future-proof optical network.