Dr. Jafar Heydari is an Associate Professor at the School of Industrial Engineering, University of Tehran since ۲۰۱۲. He received his PhD and MSc in Industrial Engineering from the Tarbiat Modares University and his BSc in Industrial Engineering from the Isfahan University of Technology. His main areas of research interests include supply chain coordination, supply chain contract design, green supply chain management, and multi-echelon inventory systems. His works appear in European Journal of Operational Research, Decision Support Systems, International Journal of Production Economics, Transportation Research Part E, Computers and Operations Research, and etc.