Anastassios (Tassos) Bountis is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Mathematics, University of Patras, Greece. He has been the director of the Center for Research and Application of Nonlinear Systems of the University of Patras and the Laboratory of Nonlinear Systems https://thalis.math.upatras.gr/~crans/ In 2014, he was elected Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens in the chair of complex systems. In 2015 he was elected member of the European Academy of Science and Arts at Salzburg, Austria.
He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Rochester, N.Y., in 1978, and has taught at CalTech in 1979 and as Assistant and Associate Professor at Clarkson University in the U.S.A. until 1985. He has been invited lecturer and researcher in several countries in Europe, Mexico, India, Japan, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, and South Korea. His research has been supported by many U.S., European and Greek grants, most recently a “Thalis” project on the Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems 2012 – 2015 (600000 euro) and an ORAU grant from Nazarbayev University, 2017 – 2020 (360000 USD), where he worked as a Professor of Mathematics 2016 – 2020.
He has organized in Greece 5 international conferences, 33 Greek summer schools on “Nonlinear Dynamics and Complexity” and 5 International Ph.D. Schools on “Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems,” 2011 at Patras, and July 2012 at Pescara, Italy, 2013 in Crete, 2014 in Athens, and 2015 at Patras. He has authored (or co-authored) 7 books in Greek on dynamical systems and fractals and one in English on “Complex Hamiltonian Dynamics” (Springer Synergetics, 2012). He has edited (or co-edited) 7 volumes of international conference proceedings and ten volumes of Greek conference proceedings. He has supervised 20 M.Sc. theses and 15 Ph.D. theses and is on the Editorial Board of 5 International Journals. He has published 168 papers in refereed journals and 58 in conference proceedings and has nearly 6000 citations, h-index: 40, g-index: 70 (Google Scholar).