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Amir Azaron has joined the UCD Graduate School of Business for a temporary appointment as Lecturer in Project Management. In his new role, he will be mainly responsible for the supervision of students and teaching courses in the Masters programmes, in general, and to Project Management students, in particular.
Amir holds two Ph.D. degrees, the first in Industrial Engineering obtained from Tarbiat Modarres University in Iran and the second in Systems Engineering obtained from Hiroshima University in Japan, and took up several prestigious fellowships and scholarships including Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship at Dalhousie University in Canada, Humboldt Research Fellowship at Karlsruhe University in Germany, SI Scholarship at Linkoping University in Sweden and Monbukagakusho Scholarship at Hiroshima University in Japan. Prior to joining UCD, he also worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Sciences at University College Cork for one year, as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Bu-Ali Sina University in Iran for two years, and as an associate researcher at National Institute of Engineering, Technology and Innovation in Portugal for a few months.
Amir's research interests are in multiple objective decision making, stochastic networks, supply chain management, reliability, production planning and project management. He has over 30 refereed publications in a variety of journals indexed by ISI Web of Science such as European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, Computers and Operations Research, International Journal of Production Economics, OR Spectrum, Expert Systems with Applications, Applied Mathematics and Computation and many others. He has also served as a reviewer for more than 15 leading Operations Research journals.
