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Dr Antonopoulos holds a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Crete (1999) and an MSc (2002) and PhD (2007) in Applied Mathematics from the University of Patras, where he studied stability and chaos in multi-dimensional Hamiltonian systems. He held a postdoctoral position at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), working on statistical mechanics and Hamiltonian dynamics, followed by a research role at the University of Patras on the EU-funded “Complex Matter” project. In 2012, he joined the University of Aberdeen’s Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology as an EPSRC Research Fellow, focusing on modelling complex systems using information dynamics. Since 2015, he has been a lecturer at the University of Essex, teaching and researching dynamical systems, chaos theory, complex networks, and computational neuroscience, with applications to brain dynamics and COVID-19 spread. He is a member of the IMA and LMS, and serves as Essex's IMA representative. Dr Antonopoulos is an editor for Scientific Reports, Open Physics, and several Frontiers journals. He has published 59 peer-reviewed papers, given 59 talks (19 invited), and organized sessions at major conferences. His h-index is 24 with 2,888 citations. He has supervised four postgraduates and currently mentors three PhD students. His research combines mathematics and modelling to understand complex systems, with active collaborations in the UK and internationally.

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Prof. Dr. Edson Denis Leonel is a professor of Physics at São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil. His research focuses on nonlinear dynamics, statistical mechanics, and phase transitions in low-dimensional systems. He has authored several books and numerous scientific papers on chaotic diffusion and scaling laws, and has organized international conferences on complex systems. He is also actively involved in academic leadership, serving as Dean of the Institute of Geosciences and Exact Sciences at UNESP.

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Prof. Dr. Joelson Dayvison Veloso Hermes is a professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of South of Minas Gerais (IFSULDEMINAS), Brazil. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from São Paulo State University (UNESP) and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo (USP). His research interests include nonlinear dynamics, Hamiltonian systems, and the application of Slater’s theorem to the study of invariant structures in dynamical systems such as the Fermi-Ulam model and billiards. He is also engaged in the analysis of parameter spaces in discrete dynamical systems, with a focus on periodicity cascades, extreme and superstable curves, and fractal structures in maps.

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Dr. Matheus Rolim Sales is a postdoctoral researcher at University of Essex, Colchester, and my research interest ranges from Hamiltonian dynamics and characterization of stickiness to diffusion and transport of chaotic trajectories in phase space. I’m also interested in complex networks, adaptive networks, synchronization and chimera-like states.