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Dr Saeed Taheri

Senior Lecturer

Nottingham Business School

Staff Group(s)
Department of Strategy, Analytics and Operations

Role

Saeed is a Senior Lecturer and the Learning and Teaching Representative (DLTR) in the Department of Strategy, Analytics and Operations (SAO). An engineer by background, Saeed received his PhD from Nottingham Business School in 2018. He is primarily tasked with instructing various Operations and Supply Chain Management modules while concurrently supervising research and consultancy projects across undergraduate, postgraduate, and PhD levels. Saeed's research pursuits are focused on systems sciences, with particular emphasis on the utilization of system dynamics modelling in diverse managerial and policy-based contexts. Through his research, he aims to develop a greater understanding of the complexities and interconnectedness that underpin organizational and societal systems and to derive actionable insights for enhanced decision-making in these domains.

Career overview

Saeed has obtained both a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in the field of Materials Science and Engineering. He has accumulated a decade of experience working as a production technology specialist and quality manager at a prominent manufacturing company located in Iran. Subsequently, he embarked upon his academic journey in the UK, pursuing a PhD centred on the process improvement in new product development. Since 2017, Saeed has been employed as a Lecturer in Operations and Supply Chain Management at Nottingham Business School. In recognition of his professional excellence and scholarly contributions, he was appointed as a Senior Lecturer in 2020.

Research areas

  • System Dynamics modeling of Socio-technical Systems
  • Operations and Supply Chain Management
  • New product development

External activity

  • MSc project supervisor at Warwick manufacturing Group (WMG)
  • Professional membership in System Dynamics society
  • Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Engineering management Journal
  • Ongoing collaboration on research with overseas universities