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Dr Kischinhevsky holds BSc and MSc in Physics, and DSc in Computer Science (1993) from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). He was Visiting Professor at Purdue University (CAM/Math) and University of British Columbia (CS), and Visiting Scientist at Memorial University (Math&Stat). His professional experience is in Mathematical and Computational modeling of phenomena in Engineering and Natural Sciences, as well as in the efficient numerical solution of differential equations. In this case, his interests include eulerian adaptive mesh refinement techniques, semi-lagrangian methods, operator splittings and parallel computation.