Eduardo Teixeira is a Full Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Central Florida (UCF), USA. His research interests include free boundary problems and regularity theory for nonlinear partial differential equations. Before joining UCF, Teixeira was a Professor of Mathematics at Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC), in his hometown Fortaleza, Brazil. During nearly ten years that Teixeira was associated with UFC in Brazil he founded and directed one of the major research groups in nonlinear PDEs in Latin America. Teixeira was awarded the 2013 Mathematical Congress of the Americas Prize and the 2017 ICTP-IMU Ramanujan Prize. He was elected permanent fellow of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Fernando Coda Marques is Full Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University since 2014, after being a Professor at the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for 11 years. He obtained his BS in mathematics at the Federal University of Alagoas, MS in mathematics at IMPA, and PhD in mathematics at Cornell University, USA. He is mainly interested in the interplay between differential geometry and nonlinear analysis. He is known for work on the Yamabe Problem, counterexamples for the Min-Oo's Conjecture of 1995, the solution of the Willmore Conjecture of 1965, and the proof of Yau's Conjecture about minimal surfaces (of 1982) for generic metrics. For his achievements, he has received several honours including the UMALCA Prize (2012), the Ramanujan Prize (2012) of ICTP, the TWAS Prize in Mathematics (2012) and the Veblen Prize (2016) of the American Mathematical Society (AMS). He is a Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences since 2014 and a Fellow of the AMS since 2018. In 2010 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM), Hyderabad, India and a plenary speaker of the ICM in 2014, in Seou