Dr. Muhammet Deveci is an Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering in the Turkish Naval Academy, National Defense University, Istanbul, Turkey, and he is Honorary Senior Research Fellow with the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London, UK. Dr. Deveci is also a Visiting Professor at Royal School of Mines in the Imperial College London, London, UK. He worked as a Visiting Researcher and Postdoctoral Researcher, in 2014-2015 and 2018–2019, respectively, with the School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K. Dr Deveci is an outstanding researcher and a prolific author who has been publishing high quality peer-reviewed papers in highly ranked journals and reputable international conferences. Dr. Deveci has published over 240 papers in journals indexed by SCI/SCI-E papers at reputable venues, as well as more than 25 contributions in International Conferences related to his areas. Dr. Deveci received the 100th-anniversary award for his worldwide scientific achievements from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). Dr Deveci has also been engaged with the wider community providing academic service through chairing/organising conferences, streams, tutorials, reviewing papers, and acting as Editorial Board Member of journals including IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (T-IV), IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, Information Sciences, Applied Soft Computing, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Review, and more. Dr Deveci is an internationally recognized outstanding scientist in intelligent decision support systems underpinned by computational intelligence, particularly uncertainty handling, fuzzy systems, combinatorial optimization, and multicriteria decision making. His research and development activities are multidisciplinary and lie at the interface of Operational Research, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Science. He has been tackling challenging real-world problems without stripping off their complexities, which include climate change, renewable energy, sustainable transport, and urban mobility.