Juan José Nieto Roig is currently a Professor of Mathematical Analysis and Director of the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Santiago de Compostela where he has been affiliated since 1991. Dr. Nieto received his degree in Mathematics at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1980. He was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and proceeded to the University of Texas at Arlington. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Santiago de Compostela in 1983. He is one of the most cited mathematicians in the world according to Web of Knowledge and appears in the Thompson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers list. He has also participated as editor in different mathematical journals including Editor in Chief of the journal, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications from 2009 to 2012. In 2016, Nieto was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences.