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Dong Zhang Editor & Author

Jürgen Jost is a founding Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences. He is a recipient of the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz award of the DFG (1993) and is a member of the German National Academy Leopoldina, the Academy of Science and Literature at Mainz, and the Saxonian Academy of Science at Leipzig. Raffaella Mulas is a tenured Assistant Professor at VU Amsterdam, where her research is supported by NWO VENI and VU Startpremie grants. Previously, she was a Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, where her research group was supported by a Minerva Fast Track Fellowship from the Max Planck Society, and a postdoc at the Alan Turing Institute in London. Dong Zhang is an Assistant Professor at Peking University, and was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences. His research area is discrete analysis, especially nonlinear spectral graph theory and discrete-to-continuous extensions.