Stefan Bornholdt is Professor of Theoretical Physics and heads the Statistical Physics Group of the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics at the University of Leipzig, Germany. After studies at the University of Hamburg and UC Santa Barbara he received his doctorate in 1992. He held research positions at the Universities of Heidelberg and Kiel and in a biotech startup, and was visiting scientist at the Santa Fe Institute and the ITP Santa Barbara. His research focuses on interdisciplinary applications of theoretical and computational physics methods to complex systems in biology and other fields.
Heinz Georg Schuster is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Kiel in Germany. In 1971 he attained his doctorate and in 1976 he was appointed Professor at the University of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. He was a visiting professor at the Weizmann-Institute of Science in Israel and at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, USA. He is author of several books, among others "Deterministic Chaos", which has been translated into five languages.