Dr. Mauricio Sepúlveda obtained a degree in Mathematical Civil Engineering from the Universidad de Chile in 1988, under the supervision of Prof. Carlos Conca. He earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from École Polytechnique, Paris, France in 1993, under the guidance of Prof. Pierre-Arnaud Raviart. From 1994 to 1996, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Universität Heidelberg, mentored by Prof. Willy Jäger. Since 1996, he has been a faculty member at the Departamento de Ingeniería Matemática, Universidad de Concepción, Chile, where he served as Associate Professor until 2009 and currently holds the position of Full Professor. He has held visiting positions at leading international institutions, including: LNCC, Petrópolis, Brazil (January–August 2015), invited by Prof. Jaime Muñoz Rivera. INRAE, Jouy-en-Josas, Université Paris-Saclay, France (January–August 2023), invited by Prof. Béatrice Laroche. His research output includes: 80 publications listed on MathSciNet, with 508 citations across 380 papers (h-index=18).