**About the Editor**

**Florin Avram** has worked in reverse chronological order at the Department of Mathematics, University of Pau; in the Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics at Heriot-Watt University; in the Operations Research Center at MIT; in the Departmento de Estatistica, Universidade de Campinas, Brazil; the department of mathematics at Utah State in Logan, USA; Haifa University; Northeastern University; Boston (eight years); Cornell; Purdue; and Chapel Hill. His received his doctorate from Cornell University under the guidance of Murad Taqqu, and he has had four Ph.D. students: Mike Ricard (MIT), Fikri Karaesmen (Northeastern University), Martijn Pistorius (Utrecht), and Donatien Chedom Fotso (Pau).
