Rui Dilão is Professor of Mathematical Physics and Dynamical Systems at Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon. In 1986, he obtained the PhD in Physics (Mathematical Physics) from the Technical University of Lisbon and, in 1997, the Habilitation from the same university. In the period 1986-1988 he has been fellow at CERN. He has been collaborator of the scientific program associated with the Portuguese satellite PoSAT-1 (1992-93). In 1999, together with two colleagues, he received the LabMed prize for original research work on laboratorial research medicine. He is author of more than 60 research publications, distributed among dynamical systems theory, chaos theory, celestial mechanics, ecological and economic modelling, mathematical biology, biophysics, morphogenesis and nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations. He has presented more than 100 research lectures or communications in the academia and research meetings. He has supervised 4 PhD thesis, 26 students at the master level, and has served as advisor of 4 postdoc researchers. He coordinated and participated in 18 research projects. He has co-authored a research book on dynamical system techniques for the design of particle accelerators. He has written 4 monographs for undergraduate and graduate studies, one book for undergraduate teaching, and a two-booklet set with a kit for the awareness of the concepts of latitude and longitude, at the middle school level. On a regular basis, he serves as referee for several academic journals, is member of the editorial board of an international journal, and served as member of the steering committees of 2 research programs of the European Science Foundation. He participated as principal investigator in one of the work packages of the project GENNETEC (2006-2009) supported by the European Commission. He organized several research meetings in Portugal and abroad, and has edited several proceedings monographs. He is member of several professional societies.