Bio of Prof. Dr. Valery Romanovski
Valery Romanovski studied mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of Leningrad State University (USSR). In 1983 he received his diploma and in 1986 his PhD degree from the university. From 1987 to 1990 he worked as an Assistant Professor at the Branch of Moscow Aviation Institute at Baikhonur Space Center. Then he moved to Minsk to work at the Belarusian State University for Informatics and Radioelectronics. In 2001 he defended his habilitation thesis and was awarded the degree Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (the highest scientific degree in some countries of former USSR) from the Institute of Mathematics of National Academy of Science of Belarus.
From the year 2000 he is permanently employed as a researcher at the Center for Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics of the University Maribor (Slovenia). In the year 2014 he was elected as a full professor of mathematics at the University of Maribor. At present he teaches a few mathematical courses at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, of the University of Maribor. His research works are related to the theory of dynamical systems, computational algebra, and applications to biochemical networks. He is author/co-author of about 150 research articles published in leading international journals and a co-author of research monograph published by Birkhauser. He is a member of Editorial Boards of Journal of Applied Analysis and Computation, Mathematics, and Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems.
He was the principal investigator of many research projects including two EU projects, bilateral projects (with USA, China, Hungary, Russia, Serbia, Turkey). At present he is one of leading investigators of the EU project “Dynamical Systems and Reaction Kinetics Networks”. For his scientific achievements in the year 2011 he has received the state prize of second degree of the Republic of Slovenia (the Zoisovo priznanje).
Bio of Dr. Brigita Ferčec
Dr. Brigita Ferčec is a researcher and university lecturer at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Energy Technology. She also holds a research position at the Center for Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Maribor. Her research focuses on dynamical systems, especially on problems in the qualitative theory of ordinary differential equations. She earned her PhD in 2013 under the supervision of Professor Valeriy Romanovski. Dr. Ferčec teaches mathematics to students of energy engineering, civil engineering, and mathematics, and has published in high-impact scientific journals. She currently serves also as Vice-Dean for International Affairs at the Faculty of Energy Technology.
