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Dr. Chris G. Antonopoulos is a Lecturer at the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science (SMSAS), University of Essex. He obtained his BSc in Mathematics from the University of Crete (1999), and his MSc (2002) and PhD (2007) in Applied Mathematics from the University of Patras, Greece. His PhD focused on the stability and chaos in multi-dimensional Hamiltonian systems and their transition to Statistical Mechanics. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Université Libre de Bruxelles in Prof. P. Gaspard’s group, where he published work on Hamiltonian systems and Statistical Mechanics. He later joined Profs. K. van der Weele and T. Bountis’ group at the University of Patras under the European “Complex Matter” programme. From 2012, he was an EPSRC Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen’s ICSMB, working on information-dynamical approaches to complex systems. Since 2015, he has taught and conducted research at the University of Essex, focusing on dynamical systems, chaos theory, information theory, computational neuroscience, and complex networks, with applications to brain dynamics and epidemic modelling (e.g., COVID-19). He is a member of the LMS and IMA and serves as editor for Scientific Reports (Nature), Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, and Open Physics. Dr. Chris G. Antonopoulos has authored 59 journal publications, 9 conference papers/book chapters, and delivered 59 talks (19 invited). He has organised sessions at BAMC, DDCA, and CHAOS conferences, and taught advanced courses on complex systems at summer schools and PhD programmes. With an h-index of 24 and over 2,800 citations, he currently supervises three PhD students and collaborates internationally to advance mathematical modelling of complex systems.

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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 his research interest ranges from Hamiltonian dynamics and characterisation of stickiness to diffusion and transport of chaotic trajectories in phase space. He is also interested in complex networks, adaptive networks, synchronisation and chimera-like states.