Tinaz Ekim is an associate professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Bogaziçi University, Turkey. She completed her Ms degree at the Université Paris Dauphine in the Computer Science and Mathematics Department. She obtained her PhD in 2006 in Operations Research from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), supervised by Dominique de Werra. Her research focuses on Structural and Algorithmic Graph Theory, Combinatorial Optimization and Complexity Theory. She was the director of three bilateral research grants with France and Slovenia, and director of two other national research grants. She is also the recipient of the Young Scientist Award 2016 given by the Turkish Academy of Sciences. She was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar during the academic year 2017-2018 at the University of Oregon. More information available at http://www.ie.boun.edu.tr/~tinaz