Professor Florian Luca’s research in mathematical sciences centers on Number Theory with a focus on the areas of Diophantine equations and Multiplicative Number Theory. He obtained his Honors in Mathematics from the University of Iasi in Romania in 1992 and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks, USA in 1996. He was a Research Professor at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico for 14 years. Since 2014 he has been a Distinguished Research Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He has held numerous visiting appointments at Institutions around the world like Dartmouth College in the USA, the University of Valparaiso in Chile, the University of Bordeaux in France, Oxford University in the UK, and the Max Planck Institutes in Germany, among others. He has published more than 800 articles and is a leading contributor to major journals in Number Theory such as the Journal of Number Theory and Acta Arithmetica. He has supervised 12 PhD students with another one currently in progress. Prof Luca has received various international accolades for his research including a Humboldt Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a CNRS Ambassador Fellowship. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences of South Africa."