Prof. Tassos Bountis University of Patras, Department of Mathematics, Greece tassosbountis@gmail.com Biography: Anastassios (Tassos) Bountis is 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 . He was the recipient of Academy of Athens Award G. Fwteinos for “Dynamical Systems” in 2009. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Rochester, N.Y. , in 1978, and has worked at CalTech in 1979 and as Assistant and Associate Professor at Clarkson University in the U.S.A. until 1986. He has been invited researcher in several countries in Europe, Mexico, India, Japan and Brazil. His research has been supported by many U.S., European and Greek grants, most recently by a ERA-Complexity NET project, involving the University of Patras and groups from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, the University of Twente, Netherlands and the University of Manchester . He has organized 4 international conferences and 22 Summer Schools on “ Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity” and has authored 5 books in Greek and one in English, “Complex Hamiltonian Dynamics” (Springer Verlag, 2012). He has also organized 3 Ph.D. Schools on “Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems” in Patras, 2011, Pescara, Italy, 2012 and Heraklion, Crete, 2013. He has supervised 16 M.Sc. theses and 15 Ph.D. theses and is on the Editorial Board of 4 International Journals. He has published 135 papers in refereed journals and 50 in conference proceedings, which have received more than 2500 citations by other authors.