Dr Amin Vafadarnikjoo

Management School

Lecturer in Operations Management and Decision Sciences

Programme Lead for BA Business Management

Amin Vafadarnikjoo.
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Dr Amin Vafadarnikjoo
Management School
B067
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
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Amin Vafadarnikjoo is a lecturer in Operations Management and Decision Sciences at Sheffield University Management School. 

Amin is the Programme Lead for the BA Business Management Programme. He also teaches and leads modules at UG and PGT levels. 

He gained his PhD from Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia, where he was awarded a full PhD studentship by the University of East Anglia Social Sciences Faculty. Prior to joining the University of Sheffield, he was employed as a Research Associate at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School, where he worked on various Research and Knowledge Exchange projects. 

Amin's research interests lie in the fields of operations and supply chain management, decision sciences and analytics. His articles have appeared in journals such as Omega, Production Planning and Control, International Journal of Management Reviews and Annals of Operations Research among others.

Research interests
  • Decision analysis
  • Multiple criteria decision making
  • Circular economy and sustainability
  • Supply chain risk management
  • Service operations
  • Smart manufacturing technologies
  • Industry 4.0/5.0
Publications

Journal articles

  • Vafadarnikjoo A, Chalvatzis K, Botelho T & Maliszewski K (2025) . Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 264(Part B).
  • Bambrick S, Vafadarnikjoo A, Reid I & Bamford D (2025) . Production Planning & Control, 36(4).
  • Vafadarnikjoo A, Moktadir MA, Paul SK & Ali SM (2023) . Supply Chain Analytics, 2.
  • Vafadarnikjoo DA, Chalvatzis PK, Botelho DT & Bamford PD (2023) . Omega, 116.
  • Scherz M, Hoxha E, Kreiner H, Passer A & Vafadarnikjoo A (2022) . Automation in Construction, 139.
  • Heinis S, Bamford D, Papalexi M & Vafadarnikjoo A (2022) . International Journal of Management Reviews, 24(3), 352-372.
  • Vafadarnikjoo A, Tavana M, Chalvatzis K & Botelho T (2022) . Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 80.
  • Vafadarnikjoo A & Scherz M (2021) . Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2021.
  • Vafadarnikjoo A, Badri Ahmadi H, Liou JJH, Botelho T & Chalvatzis K (2021) . Annals of Operations Research.
  • Vafadarnikjoo A, Tavana M, Botelho T & Chalvatzis K (2020) . Annals of Operations Research, 289(2), 391-418.
  • Vafadarnikjoo A, Ahmadi HB, Hazen BT & Liou JJH (2020) . Sustainability, 12(5).
  • Vafadarnikjoo A, Mishra N, Govindan K & Chalvatzis K (2018) . Journal of Cleaner Production, 196, 230-244.
  • Tavana M, Kazemi MR, Vafadarnikjoo A & Mobin M (2016) . Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation, 94, 621-629.
  • Govindan K, Khodaverdi R & Vafadarnikjoo A (2016) . Industrial Management & Data Systems, 116(4), 690-722.
  • Taylan O, Kabli MR, Saeedpoor M & Vafadarnikjoo A (2015) . Applied Soft Computing, 36, 419-421.
  • Govindan K, Khodaverdi R & Vafadarnikjoo A (2015) . Expert Systems with Applications, 42(20), 7207-7220.
  • Nikjoo AV & Saeedpoor M (2014) . International Journal of Operational Research, 20(4), 439-439.

Book chapters

  • Vafadarnikjoo A (2024) , Computational Intelligence Techniques for Sustainable Supply Chain Management (pp. 117-139). Elsevier

Conference proceedings

  • Scherz M & Vafadarnikjoo A (2019) . IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Vol. 323(1). Graz, Austria, 11 September 2019 - 14 September 2019.
  • Vafadarnikjoo A, Mobin M & Firouzabadi SMAK (2016) An intuitionistic fuzzy-based DEMATEL to rank risks of construction projects. Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Vol. 0 (pp 1366-1377)
  • Allahi S, Mobin M, Vafadarnikjoo A & Salmon C (2015) An integrated AHP-GIS-MCLP method to locate bank branches. IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2015 (pp 1104-1113)
  • Vafadarnikjoo A, Mobin M, Salmon C & Javadian N (2015) An integrated gray-fuzzy cause and effect approach to determine the most significant categories of project risks. IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2015 (pp 987-996)
  • Vafadarnikjoo A, Firouzabadi SMAK, Mobin M & Roshani A (2015) A meta-heuristic approach to locate optimal switch locations in cellular mobile networks. International Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management 2015 Asem 2015 (pp 203-212)
  • Vafadarnikjoo A, Mobin M, Allahi S & Rastegari A (2015) A hybrid approach of intuitionistic fuzzy set theory and dematel method to prioritize selection Criteria of bank branches locations. International Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management 2015 Asem 2015 (pp 595-604)
  • Saeedpoor M, Vafadarnikjoo A, Mobin M & Rastegari A (2015) A servqual model approach integrated with fuzzy AHP and fuzzy topsis methodologies to rank life insurance firms. International Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Management 2015 Asem 2015 (pp 605-614)
Research group

Supply Chain, Operations and Logistics Applied Research Centre

Grants
GrantYearAmount
Research, Knowledge Exchange and Impact Stimulation Fund-University of Sheffield (Co-I)2022-2023£3,979
University of East Anglia Social Science Faculty PhD Studentship2016-2019£45,138
Third Best Graduate Paper Award by Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM) conference in Detroit, Michigan, USA2016$200
Teaching activities
  • MGT138: Analysis for Decision Making
  • MGT6085: Global Supply Chain Leadership
PhD Supervision

Amin is interested in supervising PhD students in the following areas:

  • Multiple criteria decision making
  • Data-driven decision making
  • Circular economy and sustainability
  • Supply chain risk management
  • Service operations
  • Emerging technologies in supply chain management and logistics (Industry 4.0 and 5.0)
  • Performance measurement systems

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