Curriculum Vitae:

since 11/2025 University of Duisburg-Essen
Research assistant at the Chair of Energy Economics
Postdoctoral researcher

02/2021 - 11/2025 RWTH Aachen University
PhD student in the field of "Management, Economics and Business Administration"

09/2016 - 05/2019 Iran University of Science and Technology
Master's Degree "Industrial Engineering" with a focus on "Engineering Management"

09/2011 - 05/2014 University of Kurdistan
Bachelor's Degree "Industrial Engineering"

Fields of Research:

• Decision support systems
• Operations Research
• Sustainability assessments

Projects:

BatMan - Batteries Applications for the Trans-Management of Adequacy and Network

FLECSI- Dynamic determination of flexibility potential for active load shifting by intelligent edge controllers for sustainable steel production

Publications:

• Hendiani, Sepehr; Torkayesh, Ali Ebadi; Venghaus, Sandra; Walther, Grit: Leading the green charge: A novel type-2 fuzzy VIKOR method applied to eco-conscious freight transport. In: Expert Systems with Applications, Vol285 (2025), No 128082. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2024.02.039Citation
• Hendiani, Sepehr; Walther, Grit: Towards sustainable futures: Rethinking supplier selection through interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy decision-making. In: International Journal of Production Economics, Vol285 (2025), No 109620. doi:10.1016/j.ijpe.2025.109620Citation
• Torkayesh, Ali Ebadi; Hendiani, Sepehr; Walther, Grit: Fueling the future: Overcoming the barriers to market development of renewable fuels in Germany using a novel analytical approach. In: European Journal of Operational Research, Vol316 (2024), No 3, p. 1012-1033. doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2024.02.039Citation
• Hendiani, Sepehr; Walther, Grit: Double-layer multi-criteria group decision-making approach using neutralized possibility degree-based decision matrix with fuzzy information. In: Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol133 (2024), No 108276. doi:10.1016/j.engappai.2024.108276Citation
• Hendiani, Sepehr; Walther, Grit: Sustainability performance evaluation of renewable energy systems using a new multi-expert multi-criteria interval type-2 fuzzy distance to ideal solution approach. In: Applied Energy, Vol347 (2023), No 121005. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2023.121436Citation
• Hendiani, Sepehr; Walther, Grit: TOPSISort-L: An extended likelihood-based interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy TOPSIS-sort method and its application to multi-criteria group decision-making. In: Expert Systems with Applications, Vol233 (2023), No 121005. doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2023.121005Citation