Celso Grebogi got his PhD in Physics from the University of Maryland in 1978, Postdoc in Physics and Applied Mathematics at UC Berkeley in 1978-1981.

He is the Sixth Century Chair, and the Founding Director of the Institute for Complex Systems and Mathematical Biology, King’s College, University of Aberdeen, UK. He is also an External Scientific Member of the Max-Planck-Society. He was previously with the University of Sao Paulo as Full Professor of Physics, and, before that, with the University of Maryland as Full Professor of Mathematics.

He has made a major impact for his work in the field of chaotic and complex dynamics. He was awarded the Senior Humboldt Prize and the Thomson-Reuters Citation Laureate. The seminal work on chaos control (OGY) was selected by the American Physical Society as a milestone in the last 50 years. He received multiple Doctor Honoris Causa degrees, Humboldt Senior Prize, Fulbright Fellowship, Toshiba Chair, and various Honorary Professorship awards. He is Fellow ofthe Royal Society of Edinburgh, The World Academy of Sciences, Academia Europaea, Brazilian Academy of Sciences, American Physical Society, and the UK Institute of Physics