
BSc MSc PhD, HEA Fellow
Lecturer
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University of Aberdeen Business School, MacRobert Building, 581 King Street, Aberdeen, AB24 5UD
Biography
John Lamb (pictured here tieless) has a BSc degree from Glasgow University and MSc and PhD degrees from Nottingham University. He has been in various institutions before escaping to Aberdeen in 2002. The most interesting of these were Pilkington, where he first developed an interest in Operational Research, and the University of Kent.If you are reading this it is probably because (i) you are looking for a PhD supervisor, (ii) you have read something John has written and want to know more about him, (iii) you have nothing better to do with your time.
Yes, John does supervise PhD students.
Please check his publications and interests before contacting him. some of these are listed on this page. But his orcid id–see web links–is more definitive. He is much better at supervising topics where he has some expertise.John has broad research interests in Operational Research/Management Science. These are mostly in developing theory and methodology for applying mathematical, statistical and computing techniques to problems in management and in finance. He is fluent in C++, LaTeX and Java and can hold a reasonable conversation in Python, Ruby, HTML, English, Spanish and French.
John mainly teaches Management Science and Operations Management. He is currently a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Royal Statistical Society and a member of the Operational Research Society. He has often been compared. Usually this is to Spock, which is most illogical, or to Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory. He is sufficiently socially dysfunctional to regard these comparisons as complements.
Internal Memberships
Undergraduate programme coördinator for Business Management.
- Research
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Research Overview
Operational Research. Optimisiation. Statistics. Simulation. Computational Mathematics. Combinatorics. Mathematical modelling. John has broad research interests in Operational Research/Management Science. These are mostly in developing theory and methodology for applying mathematical, statistical and computing techniques to problems in management and in finance.
Current Research
Optimisation and data envelopment analysis applied to finance. Analysis and design of neighbourhoods for heuristics.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Level 2 Operations Management
Level 3 Business Modelling
Level 1 Context of Business
Level 5 (postgraduate) Operations Management
- Publications
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Why estimation alone causes Markowitz portfolio selection to fail and what we might do about it
European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 301, no. 2, pp. 694-707Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2021.11.036
Existentially Understanding Tourism in Locale: A Dwelling Perspective
Annals of Tourism Research, vol. 80, 102828Contributions to Journals: ArticlesMaking Cornish-Fisher fit for risk measurement
Journal of Risk, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 53–81Contributions to Journals: ArticlesA management view of security and cloud computing
Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference ProceedingsMaking Cornish–Fisher Distributions Fit
Working Papers: Working PapersResampling DEA estimates of investment fund performance
European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 223, no. 3, pp. 834–841Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2012.07.015
Variable neighbourhood structures for cycle location problems
European Journal of Operational Research, vol. 223, no. 1, pp. 15–26Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2012.05.038
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) Integrated Risk Assessment Technique on Hedge Funds Investment: Theory and Practical Application
Risk Assessment and Management. Zhang, Z. (ed.). Academy Publish, pp. 73–84, 12 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersRegression analysis for a bottom-up approach to analysing semi-prompt fission gamma yields
Annals of Nuclear Energy, vol. 46, pp. 11–19Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2012.023.011
Regression analysis for a bottom-up approach to analyzing semi-prompt fission gamma yields
Annals of Nuclear Energy, vol. 46, pp. 11-19Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anucene.2012.03.011
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