Dr Amin Vafadarnikjoo
Management School
Lecturer in Operations Management and Decision Sciences
Programme Lead for BA Business Management
+44 114 222 3453
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Management School
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Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
- Profile
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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
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- 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
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Journal articles
- . Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 264(Part B).
- . Production Planning & Control, 36(4).
- . Supply Chain Analytics, 2.
- . Omega, 116.
- . Automation in Construction, 139.
- . International Journal of Management Reviews, 24(3), 352-372.
- . Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 80.
- . Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2021.
- . Annals of Operations Research.
- . Annals of Operations Research, 289(2), 391-418.
- . Sustainability, 12(5).
- . Journal of Cleaner Production, 196, 230-244.
- . Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation, 94, 621-629.
- . Industrial Management & Data Systems, 116(4), 690-722.
- . Applied Soft Computing, 36, 419-421.
- . Expert Systems with Applications, 42(20), 7207-7220.
- . International Journal of Operational Research, 20(4), 439-439.
Book chapters
- , Computational Intelligence Techniques for Sustainable Supply Chain Management (pp. 117-139). Elsevier
Conference proceedings
- . IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, Vol. 323(1). Graz, Austria, 11 September 2019 - 14 September 2019.
- 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)
- An integrated AHP-GIS-MCLP method to locate bank branches. IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2015 (pp 1104-1113)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Grants
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Grant Year Amount Research, Knowledge Exchange and Impact Stimulation Fund-University of Sheffield (Co-I) 2022-2023 £3,979 University of East Anglia Social Science Faculty PhD Studentship 2016-2019 £45,138 Third Best Graduate Paper Award by Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM) conference in Detroit, Michigan, USA 2016 $200
- Teaching activities
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- 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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