Dr. Erol İmren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Forest Industry Engineering, Faculty of Forestry, at Bartın University. He received his BSc in Mathematics from Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University in 2009. He completed his MSc in Forest Industry Engineering at Bartın University in 2011 with the thesis "Site selection with analytical hierarchy process (AHP) method in the furniture industry". He holds two PhD degrees: the first in Forest Industry Engineering from Bartın University (2020), with the dissertation "Econometric modeling and analysis of Turkey's furniture sector foreign trade" , and the second in Mathematics from Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (2021), with the dissertation "Effects of braking parameter on space-time geometry". He began his academic career as a Lecturer at Bartın University in 2011 , served as an Associate Professor at Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa from 2023 to 2025 , and returned to his current position at Bartın University in July 2025. His primary research interests include multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods (AHP, COPRAS, WASPAS) , Taguchi analysis , artificial neural networks , data mining , statistical analysis , econometric modeling , their applications in forest industry engineering , and mathematical physics (space-time geometry).
Dr. Erol İmren is an Associate Professor in the Department of Forest Industry Engineering, Faculty of Forestry, at Bartın University. He received his BSc in Mathematics from Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University in 2009. He completed his MSc in Forest Industry Engineering at Bartın University in 2011 with the thesis "Site selection with analytical hierarchy process (AHP) method in the furniture industry". He holds two PhD degrees: the first in Forest Industry Engineering from Bartın University (2020), with the dissertation "Econometric modeling and analysis of Turkey's furniture sector foreign trade" , and the second in Mathematics from Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (2021), with the dissertation "Effects of braking parameter on space-time geometry". He began his academic career as a Lecturer at Bartın University in 2011 , served as an Associate Professor at Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa from 2023 to 2025 , and returned to his current position at Bartın University in July 2025. His primary research interests include multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods (AHP, COPRAS, WASPAS) , Taguchi analysis , artificial neural networks , data mining , statistical analysis , econometric modeling , their applications in forest industry engineering , and mathematical physics (space-time geometry).