**About the Editor**

**Enrico De Micheli** is currently Senior Researcher at the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy and teaches Quantum Information Theory and Computation at the Information Technology Institute (ISICT) of the University of Genova (Italy). He received his degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Genova in 1986. He worked as research fellow at the Institute for Scientific Research (IRST) of Trento. He has been visiting scientist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada). He is reviewer of the AMS and Editor/Referee of several mathematical journals and has published some 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include Special Functions of Mathematical Physics, Potential Theory, Quantum Mechanics, Thermal Quantum Field Theory, Approximation Theory, Inverse Problems, and Computational Physics.
