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prof.dr. D.M. Yazan (Devrim)

Full Professor
BMS-HBE-IEMS
Ravelijn 4414
d.m.yazan@utwente.nl
+31534896520
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I am a full professor at the Industrial Engineering and Management Science section. With a background in industrial engineering, I hold a PhD in the field of Innovation Management and Product Development. I specifically research on sustainable supply chain management and circular economy, with particular attention on industrial symbiosis networks and sustainable business models. Bio-based economy, renewable energy, and circular construction ecosystems are also within my expertise. I am the Resilience Theme chair of the BMS Faculty, founder of Sustainable and Resilient Circular Economy Laboratory (SRC Lab), and the Circular Economy Platform Twente (CEP Twente).

My overall goal is supporting sustainable circular economy transition and sustainable energy transition under the umbrella of industrial, rural, and urban symbiosis as three pillars of circular economy. In this transition phase, development of emerging technologies such as IT-based decision support tools covers an important part of my multi- and cross-disciplinary research. Methodologically, these tools operate based on the development of recommender algorithms, game theory models, agent-based modelling, and input-output modelling to support companies, society, policy-makers, and researchers through a transition to smart, sustainable, and resilient industry and to circular economy.

Organisations

Ancillary activities

  • Circular Mind GamesAdvisory

With a background in industrial engineering , I hold a PhD degree from Interpolytechnic School of Doctorate (Politecnico di Bari, Politecnico di Milano, and Politecnico di Torino, 2010, Italy). My studies cover a variety of topics among which sustainable supply chain management, circular economic business models, bio-based economy, industrial symbiosis networks, decision-making in transition from linear to circular economy, and use of online IT platforms for sustainable business development.

My research has been supported by multiple grants won from diverse institutions. The largest and most recent one is a Horizon Europe project: "Sustainable Circular Economy Transition: from Industrial Symbiosis to Hubs for Circularity - IS2H4C", with a scale of 23,5 million euros of which 20 million euros is granted by the European Commission. I serve as the coordinator of the IS2H4C project, running between 2024 and 2028.  Previously, I served as the technical manager of the the ‘SHAREBOX: Developing a secure management platform for shared process resources’ also financed by the European Commission (2015-2020).

I am a member of the Association of Sustainable Process Industries through Resource and Energy Efficiency (A.SPIRE) and serve in A.SPIRE’s Industrial and Urban Symbiosis working group contributing to A.SPIRE’s 2050 Roadmap for Sustainable Process Industries, namely Processes4Planet which aims at setting up 2050 sustainability goals of process industry and defining strategic actions to reach these goals.

I coordinate the Circular Economy Platform Twente which is a community engagement project to foster interdisciplinary research on circular economy at UT and diffuse circularity practices at regional scale in Overijssel.

Publications

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2026

A conceptual framework for sustainable energy management modelling in hubs for circularity (2026)Cleaner Energy Systems, 13. Article 100237 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Nielsen, T. L., Guericke, D., Trivella, A. & Yazan, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cles.2026.100237Financing circularity strategies in critical raw materials supply chains: Toward a novel blended framework (2026)Resources Policy, 112. Article 105811. Xie, K., Machado, M. R., Spierdijk, L. & Yazan, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2025.105811

2025

Environmental, Social and Governance Strategies for Sustainable Development Goal 3: Enhancing Health and Social Wellbeing (2025)Sustainable development (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Chaudhuri, A., Sharma, M. & Yazan, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.70498From Atoms to Allies: A Social Network Analysis of Information and Resource Exchange in Hubs for Circularity (2025)[Dataset Types › Dataset]. Zenodo. Tleuken, A., Rogetzer, P., Fraccascia, L. & Yazan, D. M.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17375853An Optimization Framework for Managing Resource Flows in Hubs for Circularity (2025)Circular Economy and Sustainability, 5(5), 3909-3938. Article 135414. Wang, J., Trivella, A., Guericke, D. & Yazan, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1007/s43615-025-00592-6Circular (De)Construction Matchmaking: Towards a Morphological Matrix (2025)In 41st Annual ARCOM Conference 2025: Regenerative Cities, Abertay Univeristy, Dundee, Scotland (pp. 407-416). Yu, Y., van den Berg, M. & Yazan, D. M.A Framework for Energy Management Modelling in Hubs for Circularity (2025)[Working paper › Preprint]. ArXiv.org. Nielsen, T. L., Guericke, D., Trivella, A. & Yazan, D. M.https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.19765Performance measures of industrial symbiosis with inventory (2025)International journal of production economics. Article 109766 (E-pub ahead of print/First online). Albino, V., Fraccascia, L. & Yazan, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109766Few-shot learning and deep predictive models for cost optimization and carbon emission reduction in energy-water management (2025)Journal of environmental management, 389. Article 126077. Zhao, W., Chen, H., Yazan, D. M., Taghavifar, H., Lyu, Y. & Bulis, A.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.126077Analyzing Organizational and Resource Flow Networks for Hubs for Circularity: A Social Network Analysis Approach (2025)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] 6th Symposium on Circular Economy and Sustainability 2025. Tleuken, A., Rogetzer, P., Fracassia, L. & Yazan, D. M.Designing a stakeholder engagement framework with critical success factors for Hubs for Circularity (2025)Journal of environmental management, 384. Article 125324. Tleuken, A., Rogetzer, P., Fraccascia, L. & Yazan, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.125324

2024

Circular Construction Ecosystems: Designing a Circularity Information Platform for the Built Environment (2024)[Thesis › PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT]. University of Twente. Yu, Y.https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036563970Circularity Reinforcement of Critical Raw Materials in Europe: A Case of Niobium (2024)Circular Economy and Sustainability, 4(4), 2449-2472. Article 121555. von Rennenberg, T., Yu, Y., Fracassia, L. & Yazan, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1007/s43615-024-00369-3Circular (de)construction matchmaking: A matter of space and time (2024)Journal of industrial ecology, 28(4), 868-884. Yu, Y., van den Berg, M. & Yazan, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13503Assessing Circularity and Sustainability in Hubs for Circularity: A Novel Approach for Optimizing SME Contributions (2024)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] 5th Symposium on Circular Economy and Sustainability 2024. Rogetzer, P., Machado, M. & Yazan, D. M.Development of a Framework for Stakeholder Engagement with Success Metrics for Hubs for Circularity (2024)[Contribution to conference › Abstract] 5th Symposium on Circular Economy and Sustainability 2024. Tleuken, A., Rogetzer, P., Fracassia, L. & Yazan, D. M.The influence of greenwashing practices on brand attitude: A multidimensional consumer analysis in Germany (2024)Business strategy and the environment, 33(2), 597-625. Bladt, D., van Capelleveen, G. & Yazan, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3496Circularity hubs in the built environment: Validating an agent-based scenario demonstrator (2024)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 40th Annual ARCOM Conference 2024: Looking back to move forward. Yu, Y., van den Berg, M. & Yazan, D. M.

2023

How Circular Construction Ecosystems Grow: An Agent-Based Matchmaking Model (2023)[Contribution to conference › Paper] 39th Annual ARCOM Conference 2023. Yu, Y., van den Berg, M. C. & Yazan, D. M.Circularity information platform for the built environment (2023)Automation in construction, 152. Article 104933. Yu, Y., Yazan, D. M., van den Berg, M. C., Firdausy, D., Junjan, V. & Iacob, M. E.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2023.104933The impact of internal company dynamics on sustainable circular business development: Insights from circular startups (2023)Business strategy and the environment, 32(4), 1931-1950. von Kolpinski, C., Yazan, D. M. & Fraccascia, L.https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3228

2022

A systematic literature review on Circular Economy implementation in the construction industry: a policy-making perspective (2022)Resources, conservation and recycling, 183. Article 106359. Yu, Y., Junjan, V., Yazan, D. M. & Iacob, M. E.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2022.106359Decision-support tools for smart transition to circular economy (2022)In Smart Industry - Better Management (pp. 151-169) (Advanced Series in Management; Vol. 28). Emerald. Yazan, D. M., Capelleveen, G. v. & Fraccascia, L.https://doi.org/10.1108/S1877-636120220000028010Circular economy in the construction industry: A review of decision support tools based on Information & Communication Technologies (2022)Journal of cleaner production, 349. Article 131335. Yu, Y., Yazan, D. M., Junjan, V. & Iacob, M. E.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.131335

2021

An industrial symbiosis simulation game: Evidence from the circular sustainable business development class (2021)Journal of industrial ecology, 25(6), 1688-1706. Fraccascia, L., Sabato, A. & Yazan, D. M.https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13183

Research profiles

In terms of education, I am coordinating the interdisciplinary Circular Economy Transition bachelor minor module where I also teach Circularity Management and Technology course and giving the master course of Circular Sustainable Business Development.

I am the founder of Sustainable and Resilient Circular Economy Laboratory: SRC Lab, an online learning environment operating with multiple online serious games. The games located in SRC Lab are Circular Economy Transition City game (given in Circular Economy Transition minor), Industrial Symbiosis Game, and Circularity Platform for Construction Industry (both given in Circular Sustainable Business Development course).

These are all inter- and cross-disciplinary educational activities with the involvement of multiple students from multiple programs at UT.

Affiliated study programs

Courses academic year 2025/2026

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.

Courses academic year 2024/2025

A short list of recent granted projects is provided below.

* 2023     € 23.311.235 (3.392.000 for University of Twente, project coordinator, UT team: Yifei Yu, Alessio Trivella, Daniela Guericke, Marcos Machado, Patricia Rogetzer, Abhishta Abhishta, Canan Acar) from European Commission - Horizon Europe for "Sustainable Circular Economy Transition: From Industrial Symbiosis to Hubs for Circularity: IS2H4C". Consortium composed of 34 partners from 9 countries.

* 2021      € 21.700 (main applicant, with the research team Luca Fraccascia, Yifei Yu, and Patricia Rogetzer) from University of Twente, Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences, call for WSV Innovative Teaching proposals, for "Serious gaming for Circular Economy Transition (SG4CET)".

* 2020      € 275.000 (main applicant, with the research team Yu, Y., Iacob M., Junjan, V.) from University of Twente, Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences, call for BMS Signature proposals, for "Engineering an Information Platform for Sustainable, Smart, and Resilient Circular Construction Ecosystems".

* 2015      € 5.910.000 (€ 725.000 for University of Twente) from European Commission Horizon2020 call for SPIRE6 – Sustainable Process Industries for Energy and Resource Efficiency, for “Secure Management Platform for Shared Process Resources –SHAREBOX” Consortium composed of 15 partners from 6 different European countries. Roles: Technical manager of the project and the leader of Workpackage 3 (Smart decision-support tools). 

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