Alireza Goli is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Future Studies, Faculty of Engineering, at the University of Isfahan, Iran. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Industrial Engineering from Golpayegan University of Technology (Iran, 2013) and Isfahan University of Technology (Iran, 2015), respectively. Then, he received a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Yazd University (Iran, 2019). Recently, he has been featured among the “World’s Top 2% Researchers/Scientists in 2021” list identified by Elsevier BV, Stanford University. He has published more than 60 papers in high-quality journals and conferences and has been serving as a reviewer in many reputed journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Journal of Supercomputing, and Annals of Operations Research. He has been serving on the guest editorial board in several journals, such as Annals of Operations Research (Springer) and Environmental Science and Pollution Research (Springer). He is working as a member of the editorial board in different journals like Mathematical Problems in Engineering. His current research interests include supply chain network design, circular economy, meta-heuristic algorithms, robust optimization, and artificial intelligence.