Sk. Riad Bin Ashraf is a scientific researcher in transportation and logistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Previously, he was a graduate research assistant at the Technical University Dortmund, Germany. Sk. Bin Ashraf’s research encompasses supply chain management, the circular economy, urban planning, blockchain technology, and life cycle assessment (LCA), with his master’s thesis focusing on the LCA of the food supply chain in the bio-circular economy. He has coauthored book chapters, presented at conferences, and published several journal papers. Sk. Bin Ashraf achieved a high score in the “Design for a Circular Economy” course from openSAP and is an International Supply Chain Education Alliance (ISCEA) Certified Supply Chain Analyst. He was awarded the German Academic Exchange Service scholarship and a scholarship in the NFT Talent program of the Blockchain Center at Frankfurt School, Germany. Sk. Bin Ashraf earned a master’s degree in manufacturing technology from the Technical University Dortmund. He can be reached at shake.ashraf@uni-due.de.