Timoteo Carletti is full professor at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Namur (Belgium), and active member of the Namur Institute for Complex Systems, naXys, and director of the latter in 2010-2014. He is an expert in the dynamical aspects of complex systems; his publications cover fields as varied as: biology, celestial mechanics, chaos detection, complex networks, control of systems, dynamic systems, economics, particle accelerators, social dynamics. After a Masters degree in Physics (University of Florence, 1995) Timoteo Carletti continued his doctoral studies in Florence (Italy) and in Paris (France) at IMCEE, and finally defended his doctoral thesis in mathematics in February 2000.