Philip K. Maini
University of Oxford , UK

Philip K. Maini received his Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Balliol College, Oxford, UK in 1982 and his DPhil in 1985 under the supervision of Professor J.D. Murray, FRS.  In 1988 he was appointed Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. In 1990, he returned to Oxford as a University Lecturer and, in 1998, was appointed Professor of Mathematical Biology by Recognition of Distinction and Director of the Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology. In 2005, he was appointed Statutory Professor of Mathematical Biology. He is on the editorial boards of a large number of journals, including serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (2002–15). He is a SIAM Fellow, Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci), and Foreign Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (FNA).

His present research projects include the modelling of avascular and vascular tumors, normal and abnormal wound healing, and a number of applications of mathematical modelling in pattern formation in early development, as well as the theoretical analysis of the mathematical models that arise in all these applications. 

He co-authored with Jonathan Sherratt and Paul Dale a Bellman Prize-winning paper (1997), was awarded a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship for 2001-2 and a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award (2006–11). In 2009, he was awarded the LMS Naylor Prize and Lectureship and in 2014 he was listed in "The World's Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014" (Thomson Reuters). In 2017, he was awarded the Arthur T. Winfree Prize from the Society of Mathematical Biology (SMB).

Richard A. Brualdi
University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA

Richard A. Brualdi is UWF Beckwith Bascom Professor of Mathematics 2004-2008 (now emeritus) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He received the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching at UW-Madison in 1986. In 2000, he received the Euler Medal for a lifetime career of distinguished contributions to combinatorial research by a member of the

Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications (ICA). In 2005, he received the International Linear Algebra (ILAS) Prize for lifetime contributions.

He is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). He is a co-editor-in-chief of the journal Linear Algebra and Its Applications and a co-editor-in-chief of the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics. He is the author of more than 200 papers and six books. He has had 37 PhD students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.