Dr.Sci. Yuri V. Tyutyunov is a Chief Researcher in the laboratory of Information Technologies and Mathematical Modelling at the Southern Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SSC RAS, Rostov-on-Don, Russia). In 2010 he has defended his Dr.Sci. thesis in Physical and Mathematical Sciences at the Institute of Biophysics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Krasnoyarsk). Earlier, in 1988 he has defended his PhD thesis at Lomonosov Moscow State University. He is an applied mathematician with over 40 years of research experience in mathematical ecology and ecological modelling, with a special focus on theory of trophic interactions, harvesting optimization, extinction risk assessment, biological control, animal spatial behavior and natural selection. He worked for the Research Institute of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics at Rostov State University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia), the Institute of Zoology and Ecology of Animals of the Lausanne University (IZEA UNIL, Switzerland), Paris-Sud (Paris-XI) University (Orsay, France), was a visiting Professor at Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon (INAP-G, AgroParisTech), and the Pierre and Marie Curie (Paris-VI) University. Yuri Tyutyunov is a Board Member of the Section "E3: Mathematical Biology" and Collection Editor of the topical collection "Theoretical and Mathematical Ecology" of Mathematics, Editorial Advisory Board member of Ecological Complexity.