Research Fellows
Dr. Dawn Russell, Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Dawn Russell is an Associate Professor of Transportation and Logistics at University of North Florida (UNF), and part of the Transportation & Logistics Flagship Program at UNF. Dr. Russell also serves as the Director of the Masters of Science in Logistics & Supply Chain Management degree program in the Coggin College of Business. Dr. Russell has worked on transportation, logistics, strategic sourcing and supply chain problems across a host of industries including aerospace, pharmaceuticals, construction, rail, and others. She gained operating experience working with GE Aircraft Engines and Lockheed Martin Aero & Naval Systems. Dr. Russell’s teaching portfolio includes courses in transportation, international logistics, strategic sourcing, and supply chain management.
Dr. Russell has published in Journal of Business Logistics, Transportation Journal, International Journal of Logistics Management, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research, Supply Chain Management Review and Supply Chain Quarterly. She completed her Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering at Northwestern University and is an Eno Transportation Fellow. She has also earned an M.B.A. from The Ohio State University and a B.A. in Materials and Logistics Management from Michigan State University.
Dr. Russell has served as a speaker at the annual Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) conference in both the United States and Europe, the Ethanol Logistics Conference, quarterly meetings of the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions (VICS) Association, Retail Industry Logistics Association (RILA), Vendor Compliance Federation (VCF), and several other professional organizations.
Contact Dawn at dawn.russell@unf.edu
Dr. Nathan Kunz, Senior Research Fellow
Dr. Nathan Kunz is an Associate Professor of Operations Management in the Coggin College of Business. He holds a PhD in Management (Operations Management) from the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland and a Master of Science in International Business Development from the same university. His undergraduate degree was in Engineering (Automotive Technology).
Dr. Kunz joined UNF in Fall 2015, where he teaches courses in Operations Management, Management Science and Modeling at the undergraduate and graduate level. He is the Program Director of the Master of Science in Business Analytics. Before joining UNF, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at INSEAD, France. He also worked as lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Kunz worked as Deputy Director and Director of Operations at the Digger Foundation, a Swiss charity manufacturing humanitarian demining machines.
The research of Dr. Kunz has been published in journals such as the Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Journal, California Management Review, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Industrial Ecology. He serves on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Operations Management (JOM), the Production and Operations Management Journal (POM), the Decision Science Journal (DS) and the International Journal of Operations and Production Management (IJOPM). He is also member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management (JHLSCM)
Contact Nathan at nathan.kunz@unf.edu