Edgard completed his PhD in Mathematics at the Instituto Superior Técnico of the Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal, 2013) under the direction of Diogo Gomes. After the completion of his doctoral work, he held post-doctoral positions at CAMGSD-IST-UL (Lisbon), IMPA (Rio de Janeiro) and ICMC-USP (São Carlos). In 2016, Prof. Pimentel obtained his Habilitation (Livre-Docência) at USP (ICMC). Pimentel was selected as a Jovem Cientista do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (2018) and is a former grantee of Instituto Serrapilheira. A former Junior Associate Fellow of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, Trieste), Prof. Edgard was ellected an Affiliate Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) in 2019. In 2024, Edgard was selected to join the Seminário de Jovens Cientistas of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. With previous professorial positions in Sãoo Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Edgard is currently an Associate Professor with Habilitation (Agregação) in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Coimbra and a researcher at the Centre for Mathematics at the same University (CMUC).
Bourama Toni is a Full Professor of Mathematics and Chair of the Department of Mathematics at Howard University, Washington, DC, USA. Dr. Toni is the Founder and Editor of the Springer-published STEAM-H series, with truly an interdisciplinary profile. His research interests are primarily in Differential and Nonlinear Analysis and related topics to include Dynamical Systems, Non-Archimedean Analysis, Game Theory, Feedback Loops Analysis, and their applications to biosciences, behavioral sciences and naval engineering, with an excellent track-record of quality published research papers including contributed volumes with Springer.