Ali Baklouti is a Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of Sfax, Tunisia. He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Metz, France, in 1995. He served as Vice-President of the University of Sfax from December 2020 to July 2024 and held the position of President of the Tunisian Mathematical Society for two consecutive terms (April 2016–March 2019 and April 2019–March 2022). Since January 2012, he has served as the Deputy Director of the Mediterranean Institute of Mathematical Sciences, an institution he co-founded in the same year. In December 2016, he was elected as a permanent member of the Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts.

Professor Baklouti has received numerous prestigious awards, including the AMU-PaCOM 2022 Award and Medal, Category A in Mathematics, and the Royal Society Africa Prize 2024. In the same year, he was also honored with the Order of Merit for Education and Teaching by the President of Tunisia. He is also the holder of the “Chaire Pays de Sud” in Mathematics for 2026, organized by the CIRM (France).

He currently serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Tunisian Journal of Mathematics (published by MSP, USA) and as Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Pure and Applied Mathematics (published by ISTE, UK). Additionally, he serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including the Graduate Journal of Mathematics (MIMS) and the Arabian Journal of Mathematics (Springer).