Edixon Rojas (PhD) was born in Venezuela in 1978. He is currently an associate professor with the Department of Mathematics at the National University of Colombia, and was an assistant professor with the Department of Mathematics at Xavierian Pontifical University (Bogotá, Colombia) between 2011 and 2014. He received his PhD from the University of Aveiro in Portugal in 2010, is the author of 50 research papers, and has delivered more than 20 talks in international conferences. His scientific interests include: operator theory, singular and non-linear integral equations, ordinary differential equations, non-linear functional analysis and function spaces.

Alexander Sinitsyn (DSc, PhD) was born in Irkutsk, Russia, in 1961. He is currently a professor at the National University of Colombia. He has been a visiting professor at a number of leading research institutions, including Paul Sabatier University (1995, 1996, 2000), the Department of Mathematics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2000), the Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (2000), the Institute of Mathematics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2009, 2018), and the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (2009, 2018). Professor Sinitsyn won the European INTAS grant in 2000 with Prof. P Degond and Prof. P Markowich. His research interests include: partial and ordinary differential equations, asymptotics, stability, qualitative properties of Vlasov-Maxwell systems, boundary value problems for semilinear nonlocal elliptic equations; steady-state and nonstationary solutions of Vlasov-Maxwell-Fokker-Planck systems, applications to earthquake source modeling.

Nikolai Sidorov (DSc, PhD) was born in Irkutsk, Russia, in 1940. He serves as Chair Emeritus Professor of mathematical analysis and differential equations at Irkutsk State University. He has been invited to talk at ICIAM congresses, and has served as guest professor at Warwick University, Cambridge University, Chalmers University, Fudan University, Edinburgh University, the Engineering University of Hamburg, and the Banach Mathematical Centre in Warsaw. Professor Sidorov has also been awarded the title of Honoured Scientist of Russia. His scientific interests include: branching of solutions of the nonlinear equations, the bifurcation theory, singular boundary value problems, regularization and approximate methods, the differential-operator equations and kinetic systems.