**About the Special Issue Editor**

**Luigi Rodino** is, at present, has been a professor at the University of Torino, Italy, since 1976. He completed his degree in Mathematics at the University of Torino in 1971, and his post-doctoral studies 1972–75, which he completed at the University of Lund in Sweden, Institut Mittag Leffler in Sweden, and the University of Princeton, USA. Previously, at the University of Torino, he was the Director of the Department of Mathematics 1988–91, and the President of the Faculty in Mathematics for Finance and Insurance 2006–2009. He was also the Coordinator of International Research Projects for NATO and UNESCO 1995–2005. Moreover, he was the President of ISAAC (International Society Analysis Applications Computations), 2013–16. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of two international journals, and a member of the Editorial Committee for 22 journals. His main research fields are partial differential equations and Fourier analysis, and he is the author of 145 papers, 6 monographies, 16 edited volumes and 800 reviews. He has supervised 17 Ph.D. students so far.
