Diana E. Aldea Mendes is an associate professor at Department of Quantitative Methods for Management and Economics, ISCTE-IUL Lisbon, Portugal. She is a mathematician and applied scientist with broad experience in nonlinear dynamics (stochastic and deterministic), time series analysis, data science, ML and deep learning, computational economics and finance, control and synchronization. She is a researcher at BRU-IUL (Business Research Unit - University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal) and has authored or co-authored more than 40 technical papers and reports.

Felipa de Mello-Sampayo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at ISCTE-IUL, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and integrated researcher in BRU-IUL. The PhD Thesis in Economics from University of Birmingham in 2001 was publish at The British Library. Among her several peer review publications, all published after the PhD and indexed in Scopus and Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge (WoS), there are 13 manuscripts without coauthors. Her research focus in microeconomics models and their empirical application in several fields of social science.  Coordinator of the project PTDC/EGE-ECO/104157/2008, entitled "Health and Economic Growth" funded by the Portuguese Government under Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). Coeditor of special issues entitled “Spatial Econometrics Analysis of Sustainability” of Sustainability  and "Heathcare in China" of the Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health.