Guven Demirel

Dr. Guven Demirel is a Reader in Supply Chain Management at Queen Mary University of London's School of Business and Management, specializing in interdisciplinary research on complex systems. He holds a PhD in Physics from the Max Planck Institute and has prior roles as a Lecturer at the University of Essex and Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on supply network dynamics, sustainability, innovation, and food waste reduction, employing methods from network science, operations research, and game theory.

He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and supervises doctoral research on topics such as vaccine supply chain coordination, digital innovation in logistics, and closed-loop battery supply chains. Current students include Ayomide Thompson-Ajayi, Mariam Saad Salib, Milad Asadpour, and Saeide Jamshidpour Poshtahani.

Key research themes include supply chain resilience (e.g., food loss mitigation via 'ugly veg' supply chains), blockchain applications in finance, and bifurcation analysis for network instabilities. His work bridges operations research with natural science methodologies.

• Awards: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Centers: Member of the Centre for Globalisation Research (CGR)