EURO Mini-conference on
Optimization in the Natural Sciences

Yaroslav D. Sergeyev is Distinguished Professor at the University of Calabria, Italy (professorship awarded by the Italian Government) and Head of Numerical Calculus Laboratory at the same university. He is also Professor (part-time contract) at N.I. Lobachevski Nizhniy Novgorod State University, Russia, Affiliated Researcher at the Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking of the Italian National Research Council, and Affiliated Faculty at the Center for Applied Optimization, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA.

He has got his Ph.D. from N.I. Lobachevski Nizhniy Novgorod State University and his D.Sc. degree from M.V. Lomonosov State University, Moscow (this degree is Habilitation for the Full Professorship in Russian universities). In 2013, he has got Degree of Honorary Doctor from V.M.Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics of The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev.

His research interests include numerical analysis, global optimization, infinity computing and calculus, philosophy of computations, set theory, number theory, fractals, parallel computing, and interval analysis. Prof. Sergeyev has been awarded several national and international research prizes (Pythagoras International Prize in Mathematics, Italy, 2010; Outstanding Achievement Award from the 2010 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing, USA; Lagrange Lecture, Turin University, Italy, 2010; MAIK Prize for the best scientific monograph published in Russian, Moscow, 2008, etc.).

His list of publications contains more than 200 items. He is a member of editorial boards of 4 international journals and co-editor of 5 special issues. He has given more than 30 plenary and keynote lectures at prestigious international congresses and was a member of Scientific Committees of more than 40 international congresses. He is Coordinator of numerous national and international research and educational projects. Software developed under his supervision is used in more than 40 countries of the world. Numerous magazines, newspapers, TV and radio channels have dedicated a lot of space to his research.