Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Media, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK;Professor Francisco Chiclana received a BSc (1989) and a PhD in Mathematics (2000), respectively, from the University of Granada in Spain. He joined De Montfort University (Leicester, UK) in 2003 and became a Professor of Computational Intelligence and Decision Making in 2012. He was an Honorary Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Leicester (UK; 2015—2018) and a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Granada (2019—2023). He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Mathematics (MDPI) and an Associate Editor for ISI-indexed journals, including IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems; Information Sciences; Information Fusion; and Group Decision and Negotiation.

Department of Mathematics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland;Michel Chipot has worked as a professor at the University of Zurich since 1995. He completed his thèse d’État in 1981 at the University of Paris VI under the supervision of Haïm Brezis. His research interests include nonlinear analysis encompass variational inequalities, elliptic and parabolic equations, systems of partial differential equations, the calculus of variations, and numerical methods. Professor Chipot serves on the Editorial Boards of more than twenty scientific journals and is a fellow of the European Academy of Sciences. He has edited 17 conference proceedings volumes, as well as the six-volume Stationary Partial Differential Equations handbook series. In addition, he has authored more than two-hundred scientific articles and nine books.

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania;Professor Ion Mihai graduated from the University of Bucharest, Romania (1982). He received a Ph. D. in Sciences from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (1994), under the supervision of Prof. Leopold Verstraelen. His research interests include Riemannian Geometry, Submanifold Theory, Information Geometry and Mathematical Physics. He is a (Full) Professor at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, since 2002. Before, he was an Assistant Professor, Senior Lecturer and Associate Professor at the same University. He has supervised nine Doctors in Mathematics at the Doctoral School of Mathematics, University of Bucharest. He was a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow at Michigan State University (2003–2004) and Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at prestigious Japanese universities (2002). He also received the “Gh. Titeica” Prize of the Romanian Academy (1995). Professor Mihai served as Editorial Board member of more than10 scientific journals indexed in WoS. His publications include 11 books or book chapters and over 140 research articles. He has also edited three conference proceedings volumes.

CNR-IASI BioMatLab, Institute for System Analysis and Computer Science, Italian National Research Council (CNR), Rome, Italy;Andrea De Gaetano has worked as a Researcher (1990–2001), Director of Research (Full Professor, 2001–2026), and Director of the Institute for Biomedical Research and Innovation in Palermo (2020–2026) within the National Research Council of Italy. A certified emergency surgeon by training (Italy) with ECFMG certification (USA), he attained both his M.Sc. (USA) and Ph.D. (France) degrees in Applied Mathematics, is a Juris Doctor with Italian Bar license, and is Doctor Honoris Causa (BioStatistics). He is currently a Distinguished Professor (Full Professor with research endowment) with Óbuda University Dept. of Biomatics, Budapest; Adjunct Professor of Mathematical Statistics, Mahidol University Dept. of Mathematics, Bangkok; and Senior Associated Researcher with the Institute for Systems Analysis and Informatics of the National Research Council of Italy, CNR-IASI, Rome. His research interests focus on the mathematical modelling of physiological systems with ODEs, stochastic and fractional differential equations, and on the attending estimation of model parameters from experimental observations. Thus far, he has published over 300 full-length papers in international peer-reviewed journals, largely on the mathematical modelling of energy metabolism (Google Scholar metrics: 14383 citations, h-index 52, as of June 10, 2026). He has taught Mathematical Statistics at the universities of Urbino, Copenhagen, and Mahidol Bangkok. He has obtained approx. €5.1 million funding for research through a series of EC-financed FP and H2020 projects, foreign-financed grants, and several Italian projects (funded by the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Defense). He is the former President of the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology and has served as the Italian National Academic Delegate to the NATO Scientific and Technical Organization, Human Factors and Medicine Panel, and to the EDA European Defense Agency, CapTech Simulation.