Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Dr Mohammad Heydari is an Operations Research and Management Science scholar specialising in optimisation, healthcare operations, supply chain resilience, decision analytics, and service-system performance. He holds a tenured Lecturer position at Unitec Institute of Technology in Auckland and has previously held academic and research roles in China, including in Management Science and Engineering. His research develops quantitative, optimisation-driven, and data-informed models to support decision-making under uncertainty, with applications in healthcare systems, emergency and disaster management, procurement, logistics, sustainable supply chains, and public-sector operations. His work contributes to evidence-based policy, operational improvement, and translational decision support for complex organisational and service systems. Dr Heydari is also active in teaching, supervision, curriculum development, and academic service. He teaches across operations management, supply chain management, procurement, business research methods, and decision analytics, and supervises postgraduate research in logistics, supply chain resilience, digital transformation, and operational performance. He serves in editorial and reviewer roles for international journals, including Scientific Reports, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Informatics for Health and Social Care, and the Journal of Health Organization and Management.
As an Editorial Board Member for Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Springer Nature), a Q1 journal with an Impact Factor of 3.6, I contribute to the evaluation, development, and advancement of high‑quality interdisciplinary scholarship across the humanities, behavioural sciences, and social sciences. My role includes overseeing peer‑review processes, advising on editorial strategy, and supporting the journal’s mission to promote rigorous, impactful, and globally relevant research. My expertise spans quantitative operations management, sustainable and resilient supply chains, behavioural and service operations, healthcare operations and health‑system performance, and space mission planning and operations. I apply this interdisciplinary background to assess manuscripts, guide authors, and strengthen the journal’s intellectual scope.
Serving on the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports, contributing to the evaluation and advancement of high‑quality, peer‑reviewed research across the journal’s broad scientific scope. Responsibilities include assessing manuscript submissions for methodological rigor and scientific validity, selecting qualified reviewers, making editorial recommendations, and supporting transparent, efficient, and ethical peer‑review processes. The role also involves guiding authors toward improving the clarity and robustness of their work, upholding the journal’s standards, and contributing to the dissemination of impactful research within the global scientific community.
Appointed as Associate Editor for Informatics for Health and Social Care, a respected interdisciplinary journal (Impact Factor 2.4; WoS Q2, Scopus Q1; ABDC: C). The role involves supporting the peer‑review process, guiding high‑quality submissions, and contributing to the journal’s strategic development in data‑driven health systems, intelligent technologies, and decision‑support innovations. Research expertise includes healthcare management science, behavioural operations research, service operations, and modelling risk and adaptive decision systems, with a focus on improving decision‑making and system performance in complex organisational environments. Website: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/imif20
Responsible for contributing to the editorial oversight of the Journal of Intelligent and Sustainable Systems (JISS), an interdisciplinary publication focused on intelligent technologies, sustainable systems, and their applications across engineering, management, and related fields. The role includes evaluating manuscript submissions, supporting the peer‑review process, guiding authors toward high‑quality scholarly contributions, and helping shape the journal’s strategic direction in advancing research that addresses complex global and sustainability‑related challenges. 🔗 Learn more about the journal: Journal of Intelligent and Sustainable Systems
Serving on the Advisory Board of the Journal of Health Organization and Management, providing expert guidance across key domains including Healthcare Management Science, Health Services Research, Health Economics, Healthcare Risk Management, and Emergency and Disaster Management. The role involves offering strategic insight to support the journal’s scholarly direction, strengthening the relevance and rigor of published research, and contributing to the advancement of evidence‑based approaches in health system performance, organizational resilience, and policy‑informed decision‑making.
Responsible for a substantial teaching, supervision, and academic quality‑assurance portfolio across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the School of Applied Business. Teaching responsibilities include delivery of BSNS6350 Operations Management and BSNS6352 Supply Chain Management at the undergraduate level, and BSNS8050 Procurement Management at the postgraduate level. In addition to core teaching, supervision duties include guiding 1–2 Internship‑Based Learning (IBL) projects for undergraduate students each semester, as well as supervising 3–4 postgraduate students per semester undertaking the BSNS9000 Industry Research Project as their final capstone paper. Academic quality responsibilities extend across both internal and external moderation. Each semester involves moderation of 1–3 courses within Unitec to ensure assessment integrity and alignment with institutional standards. Externally, service is provided annually as a moderator for one or two programmes at other tertiary institutions across New Zealand, supporting national consistency in curriculum and assessment quality. This role reflects a high and sustained academic workload encompassing teaching, supervision, curriculum assurance, and sector‑wide academic contribution.