Carlos A. de Moura is a retired, now Visiting Professor for the State University of Rio de Janeiro–UERJ, Brazil, at the graduate programs of Computational Sciences and Mechanical Engineering. He got a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the New York University–Courant Institute, USA (1976), under the supervision of Peter D. Lax and Jerome A. Goldstein, with a Master’s degree from IMPA (1969), besides post-doc studies in France at the INRIA (1990-92) and the Collège de France (1992). Dr. de Moura has supervised Master and PhD Students in Mathematics, Computer Sciences, Engineering and Geosciences.