Roelof W. Bruggeman was born in Zwolle, the Netherlands. He obtained his PhD at Utrecht University in 1972, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University (1972-73). He has worked at Utrecht University since 1980, now as a guest after his retirement in 2005. In 2022 he became a corresponding member of the Academia Nacional de Ciencias in Córdoba, Argentina. The main research themes in his work are the spectral theory of Maass forms, the study of families of automorphic forms as a function of complex parameters, and the relation between automorphic forms and cohomology.
Roberto J. Miatello was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. After studying at FaMAF, UNCordoba, Argentina (1965-1970) he obtained his PhD from Rutgers University in 1976. He was a professor at UFPe, Brazil (1977-1980), a member of the IAS, Princeton, USA (1980-81), and has been a professor at FaMAF (UNC) since 1982, becoming Professor Emeritus in 2016. He is a member of Conicet and (since 1996) the National Academy
