Since 2001 Dr Andrew Greasley has been a Lecturer in Operations and Technology Management with the Operations and Information Management Department at Aston University. Between 1994 and 2001 he was a Lecturer (promoted to Senior Lecturer/School Reader) within the Derbyshire Business School at the University of Derby. He has also worked for Warwick University as a Teaching Associate and the University of Birmingham as a MBA Distance Learning Tutor as well as institutions in Europe and Africa.

He is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management.

He has supervised DBA and PhD students to completion and has been an internal and external DBA and PhD examiner.

He has extensive experience of working with organisations in the public and private sectors in the area of developing discrete-event simulation models in commercial software such as Arena and Simio. Details of his simulation projects can be found in the practitioner book ‘Simulating Business Processes for Descriptive, Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics’ published by DeGruyter in the USA in 2019.

He is interested in supervising PhD students and undertaking consultancy in the public and private sectors in the following areas of application:

• Simulation models which implement machine learning approaches such as reinforcement learning
• Simulation models which implement digital twins of processes
• Simulation models which model aspects of human behaviour
• Simulation models which model agent-based systems

Discrete-Event Simulation Modeling (Business Process Simulation)

Simulation and Analytics

Simulation and Machine Learning

Business Process Management

Systems Thinking and Modeling

BN2210 (UG) Operations Management
BN3318 (UG) Operations Strategy, Systems and Implementation (module leader)
BNM802 (PG) Simulation for Managerial Decision Making (module leader)

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Aston University, 2007
Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Higher Education Academy, 2007
Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of Derby, 1994

Phone:+44(0)121 204 3110
Email: a.greasley@aston.ac.uk
Room: ABS255