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Dr Behzad Hezarkhani
Reader in Operations Management

Eastern Gateway 110a

Summary

Dr. Behzad Hezarkhani is a Reader in Operations Management at Brunel University Business School. He is the programme leader for the MSc in Global Supply Chain Management (GSCM) and the director of Operations & Information Systems Management (OISM) research group.

Dr. Behzad studies operations research, mathematical modelling, and game theory. He studies cooperation and competition in supply chain management such as inventory, scheduling and production, transportation and logistics. His research appeared in journals such as Production and Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Resarch Part B, OR Spectrum, and Journal of Scheduling among others.

Before joining Brunel in 2018, he was an Assistant Professor at Nottingham University Business School. Prior to that, he was a post-doctoral fellow and adjunct lecturer at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. He received his PhD at Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, where his doctoral dissertation won the 2010 Canadian Purchasing Research Foundation (CPRF) scholarship.

Responsibility

  • Programme leader: MSc Global Supply Chain Management (GSCM)
  • Director of Operations & Information Systems Management (OISM) research group

Newest selected publications

Hezarkhani, B., demirel, G., bouchery, Y. and Dora, M. (2023) 'How ‘ugly’ fruit and vegetables could tackle food waste and solve supermarket supply shortages'. The Conversation.

Journal article

Hezarkhani, B., Demirel, G., Bouchery, Y. and Dora, M. (2023) 'Can "Ugly Veg" Supply Chains Reduce Food Loss?'. European Journal of Operational Research, 0 (pre-proof, ahead of print). ISSN: 0377-2217 Open Access Link

Journal article

Bouchery, Y., Hezarkhani, B. and Stauffer, G. (2022) 'Coalition Formation and Cost Sharing for Truck Platooning'. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological: an international journal, 0. pp. 15 - 34. ISSN: 0191-2615 Open Access Link

Journal article

Hezarkhani, B., Nagarajan, M. and Tong, C. (2022) 'Toward servitization: Optimal design of uptime-guarantee maintenance contracts'. Production and Operations Management, 31 (10). pp. 3806 - 3822. ISSN: 1059-1478 Open Access Link

Journal article

Zhang, Y. and Hezarkhani, B. (2020) 'Competition in dual-channel supply chains: The manufacturers' channel selection'. European Journal of Operational Research, 291 (1). pp. 244 - 262. ISSN: 0377-2217 Open Access Link

Journal article
More publications(17)