Mostafa is a Senior Lecturer in Business Analytics at the University of Wollongong, School of Business. His area of research expertise spans the fields of Operations Research and Computer Science. He enjoys solving scheduling, facility location, and supply chain problems, mainly arising in healthcare and transport. Mostafa's research works have appeared in several prestigious OR/MS journals, including Production and Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Research Part A, Computers & Operations Research, Journal of Scheduling, and Journal of the Operational Research Society. Mostafa is the recipient of the Australian Society for Operations Research (ASOR) Rising Star Award 2023.