Vittorino Pata completed his PhD in Pure Mathematics at Indiana University, USA in December 1994. Since 2000, he has been a Professor of Mathematical Analysis at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His research interests touch several areas of pure and applied mathematics, including ordinary and partial differential equations (with particular emphasis on the asymptotic behavior of solutions), infinite-dimensional dynamical systems, real and functional analysis, operator theory, and noncommutative probability.