Mehdi Toloo is a Reader in Business Analytics at Surrey Business School, UK. He also holds a Full Professor position in Systems Engineering and Informatics at the Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic. Before that, he was a Full Professor in Operations Management at Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. Areas of interest include Operational Analytics, Operations Research/Management, Decision Analysis, Performance Evaluation, Multi-Objective Programming, and Mathematical Modelling. He has contributed to numerous international conferences as a chair, keynote speaker, presenter, track/session chair, workshop organizer, and member of the scientific committee. Mehdi has lots of experience in leading and collaborating on many successful research projects. Mehdi acts as an editor for Computers & Industrial Engineering (ELSEVIER), Decision Analytics (ELSEVIER), Healthcare Analytics (ELSEVIER), Journal of Business Logistics (WIELY), RAIRO-Operations Research (EDP Sciences), Mathematics (MDPI), and Central European Journal of Operations Research (SPRINGER). He has written fifteen books and his research mainly has been published in top-tier (4*/3*) journals including European Journal of Operational Research, OMEGA, Energy, Computers & Operations Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, and Annals of Operations Research.