Tassos Bountis obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Rochester, N.Y., in 1978. Tassos Bountis has been a Professor at the Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, since 1990. He is the director of the Center for Research and Application of Nonlinear Systems University of Patras. Tassos does research in Nonlinear Dynamics and Applications of Dynamical Systems to Physics and Biology. He was the recipient of the 2014 Charles Hermite Science Ambassador Award of Saar/Germany and the 2009 Academy of Athens Award for “Dynamical Systems”. In 2015, he was elected a member of the European Academy of Science and Arts in Salzburg, Austria. He is the Recipient of the G.M. Zaslavsky Award for outstanding scholars in Nonlinear Physical Science, 2024.