Ashraf is a Professor at University of Portsmouth, UK. He served as Associate Dean for Research and has been the Director of the DBA Programme. His area of research is in risk, decision analysis and operational research, as well as safety science, resilience, reliability engineering, and maintenance management. He is active in EU funded research grants in search and rescue in the Arctic (AI-ARC and ARCSAR) and for optimisiting a robotic brachytherapy to treat prostate cancer (CoBra). He was also Co-Investigator of a project funded by Health Education England to investigate safety culture and learning from incidents in Portsmouth University Hospital Teaching Trust. He is currently a Co-Investigator of a project funded by Lloyd’s Register Foundation (LRF) to investigate safety of critical infrastructures with partners from Brazil and the Philippines. He is a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy, Fellow of the Operational Research Society, a Fellow of the IET, CMRP and a Chartered Engineer. He published over 180-refereed papers in professional journals and international conferences proceedings and has supervised 21 doctoral students to completion. He published a book on Learning from Failures: Decision Analysis of Major Disasters (2014), and co-authored a book on Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems. He received four awards: 1999, 2000, 2008, 2012, 2019 “Highly Commended” awards for five published papers from the Literati Club, MCB Press. He has been featured among the