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Wladimir-Georges Boskoff Author

Wladimir-Georges Boskoff graduated at Faculty of Mathematics of the University of Bucharest in 1982 - PhD in 1994. Since 1990, he became Member of the Department of Mathematics and Informatics of Ovidius University of Constanta providing courses in Euclidean Geometry, Differential Geometry, Calculus on Manifolds, Mechanics and Relativity, Astronomy, History of Mathematics, Basic Quantum Mechanics, etc. Among his previous books, "A Mathematical Journey to Relativity" with Salvatore Capozziello, Springer, 2020, and "Discovering Geometry: An Axiomatic Approach" with Adrian Vijiac, Matrixrom, 2011/2014.
Salvatore Capozziello is Full Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Department of Physics of University of Naples "Federico II" and Former President of the Italian Society for General Relativity and Gravitation (SIGRAV). Since 2013, he is Professor Honoris Causa at the Tomsk State Pedagogical University (TSPU), Russian Federation. His scientific activity is devoted to research topics in general relativity, cosmology, relativistic astrophysics, and physics of gravitation in their theoretical and phenomenological aspects. His research interests are extended theories of gravity and their cosmological and astrophysical applications; large-scale structure of the universe; gravitational lensing; gravitational waves; galactic dynamics; quantum phenomena in a gravitational field; quantum cosmology. He published almost 600 scientific papers and 5 books.