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Mohamed Naim   CEng, FIET, FCILT

Professor Mohamed Naim

CEng, FIET, FCILT

Head of the Logistics and Operations Management Section, Professor in Logistics and Operations Management, Co-Director of CAMSAC

Cardiff Business School

Email
NaimMM@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 74635
Campuses
Aberconway Building, Room D44, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
Users
Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

Mohamed Naim is the Head of the Logistics and Operations Management Section and a former Deputy Dean at Cardiff Business School. He is a director of the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Systems at Cardiff (CAMSAC) formerly the EPSRC funded Cardiff University Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre (IMRC). He is currently leading a Knowledge Transfer Partnership project with Tower Cold Chain Solutions Ltd. developing novel modelling and optimisation techniques to enhance the environmental, social and economic performance of its logistics network. He was the Cardiff lead on the Welsh European Funding Office (WEFO) sponsored project Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies (ASTUTE), and a co-director on the ASTUTE2020 and ASTUTE East programmes. He is a founding member of the Logistics Systems Dynamics Group (LSDG).

Mohamed's current research interests may be summarised as the development of novel business systems engineering approaches to the establishment of resilient supply chains. This encompasses sustainable and circular supply chains, and the role of flexibility in lean, agile and leagile systems. Recent supply chain research in the construction sector has led to three best prizes at the Association of Researchers in Construction Management Conference.

In 1996 he was awarded the Institution of Electrical Engineers' Manufacturing Division Premium for a paper on supply chain modelling and simulation. In 2003 he was granted a Royal Academy of Engineering Global Research Award at Linköping University, Sweden. He is currently an Expert Advisor on the Knowledge Foundation (KK) funded project AFAIR, a multidisciplinary research project exploring data-driven decision making, and more specifically the role of artificial intelligence, in industrial organisations.

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Research

Research interests

  • Business systems engineering
  • Supply chain and logistics resilience
  • Manufacturing systems management

PhD supervision research interests

  • Development of novel business systems engineering approaches to the establishment of resilient supply chains
  • Role of flexibility in lean, agile and leagile systems
  • Sustainable supply chains
  • Complex engineer-to-order / 'one-of-a-kind' / 'first-of-a-kind' production systems

Teaching

Teaching commitments

Strategic and Operational Decision-Making (BST714)  on the MSc Business Management and Supply Chain Dynamics (BST838) on the MSc in Logistics and Operations Management.

Additional teaching

PhD supervisor

Biography

Editorial work

  • Past Editor-in-Chief - International Journal of Logistics: Research & Applications
  • Editorial board - International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Logistics Management, International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications, International Journal of Decision Sciences, Risk and Management
  • Scientific / Advisory Committee - International Working Symposium on Production Economics, International Symposium on Logistics, Logistics Research Network Conference, International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing.

Honours and awards

  • 2012 Rod Howes Commemorative Award for Innovation, Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) Conference
  • 2011 Construction Engineering Award for Best Paper, Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) Conference
  • 2008 Paul Townsend Commemorative Award for Best Paper, Association of Researchers in Construction Management (ARCOM) Conference
  • 2005-2010 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana
  • 2004 Outstanding Paper in Supply Chain Management, Emerald Literati Club
  • 2003 Royal Academy of Engineering, Global Research Award
  • 1996 Manufacturing Division Premium, Institution of Electrical Engineers
  • 1994 Outstanding Paper in Logistics Information Management, Emerald Literati Club

Professional memberships

  • Chartered Engineer
  • Fellow of the Institution of Engineering & Technology
  • Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport

Supervisions

PhD supervision research interests

  • Development of novel business systems engineering approaches to the establishment of resilient supply chains
  • Role of flexibility in lean, agile and leagile systems
  • Sustainable supply chains
  • Complex engineer-to-order / 'one-of-a-kind' / 'first-of-a-kind' production systems

Current supervision

Yuxuan Zhou

Yuxuan Zhou

Research student

Abdelrahman Ganfoud

Abdelrahman Ganfoud

Research student

Gavin Ford

Gavin Ford

Research student

Zihao Wang

Zihao Wang

Research student