He was born in Girona, Spain, in 1964 and moved two years later to Madrid, where he has been living since then. Prof. J. Cuesta graduated in Physics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1987 and got the PhD in Physics in 1992 at the same university. Since then, he has been working at the Department of Mathematics of the University Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) where he was appointed as an associate professor in 1995. Nowadays, he is a full professor of Mathematics and his research field is Statistical Physics. For a long period, he applied density functional theory to the analysis of complex fluids (liquid crystals, mixtures, colloids, etc.) but, although he is still doing some work on this subject, his interest on it has been gradually fading away. During a short period, when he moved to University Carlos III (UC3M), he also worked on semiconductor theory, research that he discontinued too many years ago. Nowadays, his current interests are focused on the Theory of Complex Systems, both

Sanjeev Goyal is a Fellow of the British Academy and Founding Director of the Cambridge-INET Institute. Sanjeev Goyal conducts his research on Economic Theory and is one of the leading academics in his field. He is currently a co-principle investigator on an ERA-Net on Complexity, an EPSRC funded study on the resilience and interaction of networks in Ecology and Economics.

Penélope Hernández is an associate professor of Economics at the University of Valencia. She has co-authored papers in prestigious international journals, as Econometrica, Operation Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Games and Economic Behavior, etc. Her research interests include

Marko Jusup is an assistant professor at the Institute for Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Previously, he held a similar position at Center of Mathematics for Social Creativity, Hokkaido University. His research career started in February 2004 at Rudjer Boskovic Institute (RBI), the largest Croatian national research institution. Over time, Jusup contributed to multiple

Matjaž Perc is a professor of Physics at the University of Maribor, Slovenia, and director of the Complex Systems Center Maribor. In 2009, he received the Zois Certificate of Recognition for outstanding research achievements in theoretical physics, which is Slovenia’s second-highest award for scientific excellence. In 2010, he became Head of the Institute of Physics at the University of Maribor,

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