Dr Cihan Butun

Lecturer in Management Science and Operations; Programme Lead for MSc Supply Chain Management

Prior to joining Loughborough, Cihan worked in the EU-funded PortForward project on the green scheduling and sustainability of container terminal operations. Cihan also has industrial experience in the maritime shipping sector from working in the international trading arm of Heidelberg Cement.

Dr Grammatoula Papaioannou

Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics

Grammatoula has published in leading academic journals, became a Co-Investigator on a major ESRC grant worth £1 million and established extensive links with external partner organisations.

Dr Nikolaos Argyris

Senior Lecturer in Operational Research

Nikos’s research interests broadly lie in the interface and applications of mathematical optimisation, decision theory/analysis and economics.

Professor Baibing Li

Professor of Business Statistics and Management Science

Baibing’s research focuses on statistical machine learning and data mining covering a wide range of topics such as predictive modelling, dimension reduction, and forecasting.

Professor Victor Podinovski

Professor of Operational Research

Victor’s main research interests lie in the area of nonparametric assessment of efficiency and productivity of organisations, known as data envelopment analysis (DEA).

Dr Jacob Msughter Gwa

University Teacher in Management Science and Operations; Joint Programme Lead for MSc Project Management

Dr Gwa teaches in operations management, quantitative business skills, and global logistics and supply chain management.

Professor Jiyin Liu

Professor of Operations Management

Jiyin has been working on modelling and optimisation of operations planning and scheduling problems in logistics and production systems. Most of Jiyin’s research has been driven by practical problems in industry.