Salvador Cruz Rambaud was born in Cádiz, Spain, in 1957. He received the degree in Mathematics from the University of Granada, Spain, in 1981; later, he received the degree in Economics and the Ph. D. degree in Economics and Business from the Open University, Madrid, Spain, in 1991 and 1994, respectively. In 1992, he joined the Department Accounting and Finance, University of Almería, as a lecturer, where he became an Associate Professor in 1996, and a Professor in 2010. His current research interests include anomalies in intertemporal choice, mathematical analysis of financial operations and elicitation of new statistical distributions in Finance. Currently, he is an associate editor of Frontiers in Public Health, Risks, Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, Global Health Economics and Sustainability, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications and Studies of Applied Economics. In addition, he has served as a referee in numerous prestigious journals. Finally, he has visited the following universities: Università “Federico II” of Naples (Italy), UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles, USA), Emory University (Atlanta, USA) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA).

Claudiu Herteliu holds a PhD granted in 2007 by University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania. He started teaching in 2002 as teaching assistant, currently he is full professor at Statistics and Econometrics Department from the same university. He worked with quantitative methods in Education and Research Ministry (2001-2008) and National Institute of Statistics (2008-2011). He had managerial responsibilities as The Dissemination of Romanian Statistical Information Activity or vice-dean of the Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics (2012 – present) and member of University Senate (2012 – present). Main areas of research interests are: statistics and econometrics; quantitative methods in religion; scientometrics, health-metrics, statistical artefacts.
Massimo Squillante is Full Professor of Mathematical Methods of Economics and Actuarial and Financial Sciences;  Representative of the University of Sannio in the CISA (Interacademic Center for Actuarial Sciences and the study of risks); Member of the Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti, class of Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences; Member of the Pontanian Academy; Scientific director of the “I Lincei per la scuola, Benevento”; President of the ASN Commission for SC 13D4; President of the Scientific Committee of Futuridea Research and Development Center.
He has been Director of the Department of Law, Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods of the University of Sannio; Vice Rector of the University of Sannio; Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences of the University of Sannio.
He is the author of numerous international scientific publications on models for economic and social systems; he has delivered seminars and conferences in international universities (Durban, Brno, Linz, Ohio, Seville, New York, Havana, La Sorbonne, NEOMA bs, etc.). He was awarded the Anassilaos-Pythagoras of Samos Prize 2018. He is a member of the Editorial board of: Soft Computing (Springer), Ratio Mathematica, Complex and Intelligent Systems (Springer), Progress in Computational Intelligence (Springer)