Alexandre L. Madureira is a senior researcher at the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil, and also works at the Brazilian School of Economics and Finance (EPGE) at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV). He holds a PhD from Penn State University, USA, and served as a visiting professor at the Istituto di Analisi Numerica (IAN), Italy, University of Colorado at Denver, USA, and Brown University, USA. His main field of interest is numerical analysis, more specifically modeling and analysis of multiscale problems from PDE and numerical points of view.