Hamed Fazlollahtabar earned a BSc and an MSc in industrial engineering from Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, Babol, Iran, in 2008 and 2010, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2015 and has completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in the area of reliability engineering for complex systems from October 2016 to March 2017. He joined the Department of Industrial Engineering at Damghan University, Damghan, Iran, in June 2017, and currently is working as an Associate Professor. He is a member of Iran Elites foundation. He has been chosen as Exemplary Researcher of Iran in all Engineering Diciplines, 2022 and Distinguished Young Industrial Engineering Researcher, Iran Academy of Science. 2023. He has been listed as world top 2% scientists in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. His research interests are in uncertain decision making and analytics, industry 4.0+ production systems, reliability engineering, and sustainable supply chain planning.