Karl Peter Hadeler, Dr.rer.nat. 1965 (U. of Hamburg), Habilitation 1967 (U. of Hamburg). In 1963/1964 visiting Moscow State University (MGU), 1968/1969 Visiting Associate Professor,U. of Minnesota. 1970 Associate Professor, Technical Department, U. of Erlangen. 1971 Professor of Mathematics, U. of Tübingen. Retired 2005, then 2005-2011 Non-permanent Professor, Arizona State University. Visiting Professor Aarhus, Nijmegen, Georgia Tech, Emory. 2009 John von Neumann Professorship, Technical University of Munich. Member of Center of Excellence (DFG/German NSF). Research interests: Ordinary and partial differential equations (reaction diffusion equations), delay equations, matrix theory, mathematical biology. Since 2011 about ten publications in mathematics. Johannes Müller studied in Karlsruhe and Tübingen, where he did his habilitation in 2001. After stays in Utrecht and Cologne, he became head of a research group in the Institute for Biomathematics and Biometry in the Helmholtz Center, Munich. Since 2004 he is teaching as a professor at the Technische Universität München. The research interests of Johannes Müller is on the interface of mathematics and life sciences. In particular his research is concerned with the theory of dynamical systems, cellular automata, and stochastic processes respectively their application.