Jacek Banasiak studied mathematics at the Technical University of od, obtained his PhD from Strathclyde University, Glasgow, his DSc (habilitation) from the University of Warsaw and received the state title of Professor in Poland in 2007. He is currently a Research Professor in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa and an Extraordinary Professor at the Technical University of od . His research interests lie in functional analysis and semigroup theory with application to models arising in natural sciences. He has authored a...