BSc MSc PhD, HEA Fellow
Lecturer
- About
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- Email Address
- j.d.lamb@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 274362
- Office Address
University of Aberdeen Business School, MacRobert Building, 581 King Street, Aberdeen, AB24 5UD
- School/Department
- Business School
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.
External Memberships
Member of the Operational Research Society
Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society
Latest Publications
Using stochastic frontier analysis instead of data envelopment analysis in modelling investment performance
Annals Of Operations Research, vol. 332, pp. 891–907Contributions to Journals: ArticlesWhy 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: ArticlesExistentially 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 Proceedings
- 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.
Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Management.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Research Specialisms
- Operational Research
- Financial Mathematics
- Financial Risk
- Statistical Modelling
- Statistics
Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.
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