Dr
Amin
Vafadarnikjoo

Management School

Lecturer in Operations Management and Decision Sciences

Programme Lead for BA Business Management

Amin Vafadarnikjoo.
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a.vafadarnikjoo@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 3453
B067, Sheffield University Management School

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Dr Amin Vafadarnikjoo
Management School
B067
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road

Sheffield

S10 1FL

Profile

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

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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

Dr Amin Vafadarnikjoo supervises:

Fasha
Johanis

Doctoral Researcher (Operations Management and Decision Sciences)
Management School

Research area: Circular Economy & Sustainable Supply Chain
Email
snsjohanis1@sheffield.ac.uk
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