Marco Squassina was born in Brescia in 1974. In 2002 he received the Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Milano. From 2006 to 2016 he was Associate Professor of Mathematical Analysis at the University of Verona. He is now Full Professor of Mathematical Analysis at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart. His scientific interests mainly focus on the theory of Dynamical Systems, Nonlinear Analysis and the Calculus of Variations.
Simone Zuccher was born in Verona in 1973. In 2002 he received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano. He has been an Adjunct Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Verona since 2009. His primary scientific interests are in the area of classical and quantum fluid mechanics, with particular emphasis on vortex reconnection, transition from laminar to turbulent flows, turbulence and optimization techniques.