Alemayehu Adugna Arara is an Assistant Professor at Hawassa University, Ethiopia. The main goal of the research visit is to study the optimal control of the tyre curing process, focusing on a system of coupled evolution equations and PDE-constrained optimal control. He will be hosted by Prof. Dietmar Hömberg at the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Germany.

Edna Chilenje Manda is a Senior Lecturer at Mzuzu University, Malawi. The main goal of the research visit is to develop agent-based and mechanistic models of HIV–TB co-infection under health-system constraints, building on her research in within-host and population-level modelling of infectious diseases. She will be hosted by Prof. Ruth Bowness at the University of Bath, United Kingdom.

El Bekkaye Mermri is a Professor at the Faculty of Science, Mohammed Premier University, Morocco. The main goal of the research visit is to study the obstacle problem for the heat equation, including qualitative and quantitative properties of solutions and contact regions, using theoretical and numerical approaches and methods from convex analysis. The research will also consider extensions to nonlinear cases involving the p-Laplacian and fractional Laplacian. He will be hosted by Prof. Takeshi Fukao at Ryukoku University, Japan.

Gastão Frederico is a Research Professor at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Brazil. The main goal of the research visit is to develop a new variational framework for nonlocal Herglotz variational principles with memory and establish connections with generalized Lax–Oleinik semigroups and Hamilton–Jacobi equations. He will be hosted by Prof. Juan J. Nieto at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Ivric Valaire Yatat Djeumen is a Senior Lecturer and researcher at the National Advanced School of Engineering of the University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. The main goal of the research visit is to develop and analyse mathematical models of disease vector–animal–human dynamics under human-driven migration, with a particular focus on Human African Trypanosomiasis. He will be hosted by Dr. Lukas Eigentler at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom.

Lizbeth Peñaloza Velasco is a lecturer at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico. The main goal of the research visit is to investigate the propagation of exchangeability in multi-type stochastic systems, with particular emphasis on the interaction between structured inheritance rules and mutation mechanisms. She will be hosted by Prof. Adrián González Casanova at Arizona State University, United States of America.

Mahender Singh is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, India. The main goal of the research visit is to investigate algebraic structures related to the Yang–Baxter equation, with a particular focus on skew braces and their structural properties. He will be hosted by Prof. Ramon Esteban-Romero at the University of Valencia, Spain.

Maicon Sonego is a Professor at Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Brazil. The main goal of the research visit is to investigate the large-time behaviour of scalar convection-diffusion equations in bounded domains and cones, with particular attention to how domain geometry and boundary conditions affect asymptotic dynamics, decay rates and solution profiles. He will be hosted by Prof. Enrique Zuazua at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany.

Manoj Kumar is a Professor at the Harish-Chandra Research Institute, India. The main goal of the research visit is to investigate the algorithmic and theoretical aspects of finite centrally nilpotent skew braces and their connections with set-theoretic multipermutation solutions of the Yang–Baxter equation. He will be hosted by Prof. Leandro Vendramin at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium.

Menglibay Ruziev is a Chief Researcher at the V.I. Romanovskiy Institute of Mathematics, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Uzbekistan. The main goal of the research visit is to investigate nonlocal boundary value problems for degenerate equations of hyperbolic and mixed types, with particular attention to equations involving singular coefficients. He will be hosted by Prof. Elena Klimova at the University of Applied Sciences Dresden, Germany.

Mintodê Nicodème Atchadé is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Sciences, Technologies, Engineering and Mathematics, Abomey, Benin. The main goal of the research visit is to study statistical inference for stochastic processes observed under censoring and dependence, including the effects of censoring on dependent processes and methods for inference from censored dependent observations. He will be hosted by Prof. Christian Paroissin at Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France.

Sadillo Sharipov is an Associate Professor at the V.I. Romanovskiy Institute of Mathematics, Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences, Uzbekistan. The main goal of the research visit is to study weak invariance principles for stationary weakly dependent random fields in Besov and Hölder spaces, including invariance principles for independent random fields and sufficient conditions for weakly dependent random fields. He will be hosted by Prof. Davide Giraudo at the University of Strasbourg, France.

Sara Dridi is an Associate Professor at Ferhat Abbas University Setif 1, Algeria. The main goal of the research visit is to study approximate controllability, observability and stabilizability of cellular automata through symbolic and topological dynamics, and to develop new theoretical links between these areas. She will be hosted by Dr. Ville Salo at the University of Turku, Finland.

Zhanat Karashbayeva is an Assistant Professor and Senior Researcher at Astana IT University, Kazakhstan. The main goal of the research visit is to advance research on inverse problems and numerical modelling related to heat and mass transfer, with applications to building energy efficiency. She will be hosted by Prof. Julien Berger at Université de La Rochelle, France.