**About the Editor**

**Sergei Petrovski** is an applied mathematician with thirty years of research experience in mathematical ecology and ecological modelling. His research spans across a broad variety of problems in ecology and population dynamics, with a particular emphasis on modelling complex multiscale ecological, agro-ecological and socio-ecological systems. Some of his older results on ecological pattern formation and biological invasion modelling have become textbook material. His recent research on the effect of global warming on atmospheric oxygen, where he discovered a new type of ecological catastrophe, was highlighted by the media around the world. He published four books and more than 130 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He currently holds the position of Chair in Applied Mathematics at the University of Leicester (UK). He is the Editor-in-Chief of *Ecological Complexity* (Elsevier) and the Section Editor-in-Chief for the "Theoretical and Mathematical Ecology" section of *Mathematics* (MDPI). He is also the founder and the scientific coordinator of the Models in Population Dynamics and Ecology (MPDE) conference series.
