University of Huddersfield

Head of Logistics Operations and Hospitality Management

s.s.dani@hud.ac.uk


Samir S Dani joined the Business School in Feb 2014 as Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management.

Prior to joining academia, Samir’s mechanical engineering background led him to work in the Indian automotive industry for five years. He completed his PhD at the Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing, Loughborough University, exploring buyer-supplier relationships within a psychological perspective. In 2005, he joined the Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing as Lecturer in Manufacturing Organisation, and in September 2008 left to join the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University as Senior Lecturer in Operations Management.

Samir has experience of leading and working on various EPSRC projects in a diverse range of management issues from supply chain alignment to leadership to e-commerce. Samir has received nearly £600k in research funding from EPSRC (First Grant, INTERACT call 5), IMCRC, KTP, and from other sources for funding EngDoc and PhD students.

Samir has experience in teaching a wide variety of management topics at UG, PG, MBA and Exec education levels. He has been an external examiner at the University of Hull, University of Liverpool and Cardiff University.