Dr. Bardet’s current research is focused on developing instrumentation and acquiring data for bettering understanding of physical processes and for validating high-fidelity CFD.  His research group is currently developing non-intrusive laser diagnostics for measuring water vapor temperature, dissolved gas concentration in liquids, as well as velocimetry techniques, both seedless and particle based. Notably, Dr. Bardet’s group has advanced Molecular Tagging Velocimetry to measure wall shear stress directly in high-Reynolds number flows.  Dr. Bardet and his group are focused on fluid-structure interactions, mass transfer and dynamics at liquid gas interfaces, and 3D turbulent boundary layers.  He has led several on-situ experimental campaigns where his team instrumented large experimental facilities with custom diagnostics developed in his laboratory. Dr. Bardet teaches courses in Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Experimental Methods, and Optics.

Stefano Bortolin is associate professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova (Italy), where he teaches “Applied Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer”. He received his PhD from the University of Padova in 2010. In 2017 he was visiting researcher at the Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d’Energie, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, France. His research activity is carried out in the “STET – Sustainable Thermal Energy Technologies” research group, led by prof. Davide Del Col. Dr. Bortolin is responsible for the Laboratory of Two-Phase Heat Transfer. His research interests include condensation and flow boiling inside small diameter channels, dropwise condensation over modified wettability surfaces, microgravity condensation, computational thermo-fluid dynamics, new refrigerants and heat pumps. Scientific responsible for national research projects, he is inventor of a European patent. He participated in four projects funded by European Space Agency (ESA). According to Scopus, he has 90 documents, 1470 citations and h-index=22. He is author of 3 book chapters.

Dr. Lin Chen is now a full professor and deputy director of Heat and Mass Transfer Research Center in the Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and jointly at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. He is currently one Board member of Experts Commission of China Energy Society. He obtained his B.E and PhD from Peking University. He was previously a JST-CREST and JSPS Research Fellow and an Assistant Professor in Tohoku University, Japan.

His research topics include supercritical CO2 power cycle, energy resources (hydrate and hydrogen) equipment, and advanced measurement techniques. He has authored over 300 journal papers and/or conference presentations, 20 patents, 4 professional books including the most famous one on energy conversion (Handbook of Research on Advancements in Supercritical Fluids Applications for Sustainable Energy Systems, IGI Global, 2021, 821 pages). He served and 8 times as Chair/major organizer and 36 times as plenary/invited speaker in international conferences/symposiums. He was the winner of Young Scholar Award of the Asian Union of Thermal Science and Engineering in 2018, and Research Paper Award of the Visualization Society of Japan in 2022, and ranked within the World TOP 2% scientist 2023 (Elsevier) due to his outstanding research in supercritical fluid engineering. He is also the Elsevier Journal TOP5 most-cited award and Springer Thesis Award, etc., He is also an Associate Editor of J. NERS (ASME) and Board member of the J. Supercritical Fluids (Elsevier).

Pierre Colinet is a Research Director of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) and Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where he heads the Fluid Physics Research Unit within the TIPs (Transfers, Interfaces and Processes) laboratory. He currently teaches Physical Chemistry and Modeling of Multiphase Systems, and his main research interests are in capillarity, wetting, surface-tension-driven flows, phase change (e.g. evaporation and boiling), heat/mass transfer, thin films and droplets, pattern formation, hydrodynamic instabilities, nonlinear dynamics, micro- and nano-fluidics, … Although he started his career as a theoretician, his group is now conducting experiments involving measurement techniques such as interferometry, applying to investigation on evaporating droplets of pure liquids and mixtures.He is the author of 2 monographs, several editorships, about 120 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and about 50 conference proceedings.

Dr. Sotiris Evgenidis (Chemist, MSc, PhD) is a research associate of Multiphase Dynamics Group (School of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece). He has spent the last 15 years conducting research in the area of chemical/biomedical engineering. His research interests include: a) Theoretical and experimental study of multiphase systems, b) Transport phenomena under varying gravity conditions (0-20 g), c) Wetting of solid surfaces, d) Application of electrical impedance measurements for the diagnosis of Decompression Sickness and Coronary Artery Disease. He is holder of 2 European patents, has published 25 publications in peer reviewed international scientific journals and participated at 50 international scientific conferences. Additionally, Dr. S. Evgenidis has participated in 12 European research projects (10 of which funded by European Space Agency-ESA) and also in the organizing committee of 5 international conferences. Finally, he has been awarded by ESA and NASA for his research under non-terrestrial conditions (micro-gravity and hyper-gravity) and successful technology transfer from space to ground applications.

Marcia H. Mantelli received a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1995. She worked at INPE from 1983 to 1998, developing spacecraft thermal control systems. In 1999, she joined the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, as mechanical engineering faculty Professor, starting a heat pipe laboratory for space applications, which now has provided thermal solutions for a wide range of industries. She received several grants from major industries in Brazil and, under her supervision, a 2000m2 laboratory building, dedicated to heat pipe technologies research, was constructed. As result of her cooperation with the industry, she holds more than ten patents and authored (and co-authored) over 200 publications. In 2021, she published, as the only author, the book: Thermosyphons and Heat Pipes: Theory and Applications, by Springer and Nature. She supervises/supervised over 30 doctoral thesis and 60 master´s dissertations. She received 18 awards, including Claudia Magazine’s best woman scientist in Brazil, in 2012 and “Women in Highlight”, from CREA, in 2015. She is Associate Fellow and Associate Editor of AIAA International Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer and reviewer of fifteen of the major international journals in her research area. She is Associate Editor of the Elsevier International Journal of Thermofluids. She recorded a TEDx Talk video in 2014. She has frequently been invited for round table and talks about the participation and contributions of women in engineering.

Dr. Nenad Miljkovic is the Founder Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He has courtesy appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Materials Research Laboratory, and the Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Environment (iSEE). He is the Director of the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Center (ACRC), which is supported by 30 industrial partners. His group’s research intersects the multidisciplinary fields of thermo-fluid science, interfacial phenomena, scalable nanomanufacturing, and renewable energy. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the ACS PRF DNI Award, the ONR YIP Award, an R&D 100 Award, a Distinguished Visiting Fellowship from the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, a U.S. NAS Arab-American Frontiers Fellowship, the ASME ICNMM Young Faculty Award, the ASME Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal, the CERL R&D Technical Achievement Award, the UIUC Dean’s Award for Excellence in Research, the US Army Corps of Engineers ERDC R&D Achievement Award, the SME Young Faculty Award, the Bergles-Rohsenow Young Investigator Award in Heat Transfer, the ASME EPPD Early Career Award, and is an ASME Fellow.

Dr. Thomas Schutzius is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich where he led the Laboratory for Multiphase Thermofluidics and Surface Nanoengineering. His research intersects the multidisciplinary fields of energy, surface science and engineering, and thermofluidics, and his experimental work captures the fundamental dynamics of a vast array of interfacial and micro-nanoscale transport phenomena. Dr. Schutzius received the prestigious ERC Starting Grant, which supported his research on understanding the fundamentals of limescale formation on surfaces (scaling) and using this knowledge to rationally engineer “scale-phobic” surfaces. In 2020 he received the ETH “Golden Owl” Award for excellent teaching and was a nominee for the KITE Award 2022 recognizing innovation in teaching. During his graduate studies, he was the recipient of the Dean’s Scholar Award and the UIC Outstanding Thesis Award. He also received the ETH Zurich Postdoctoral Fellowship. In 2018 he was part of the ETH Zurich representation to the prestigious Global Young Scientist Summit (GYSS) in Singapore.

Professor Yasuyuki TAKATA is a Research Professor at International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I2CNER), Kyushu University. He is also Professor Emeritus at Kyushu University and Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh. He was a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyushu University until March 2022. His research interests include two-phase flow and heat transfer, thermophysical properties of hydrogen at ultra-high pressure, micro refrigerator and micro heat transfer device and numerical simulation of thermal and fluid flow. He was the Presidents of Heat Transfer Society of Japan (HTSJ) from 2019 to 2020 and Japan Society of Thermophysical Properties in 2016. He served as the President of the Asian Union of Thermal Science and Engineering (AUTSE) from October 2020 to September 2022. He received numerous awards including the JSME Thermal Engineering Achievement Award in 2010, and ASME ICNMM2018 Outstanding Leadership Award in 2018 and Heat Transfer Society Award for Scientific Contribution in 2022. He is a Council Member of the Science Council of Japan since October 2020.

Dr. Serhiy Yarusevych is a full professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is directing the Fluid Mechanics Research Laboratory focused on multidisciplinary applications of fluid mechanics in engineering and science, including operation of lifting surfaces at low Reynolds numbers, flows over bluff bodies, free shear flows, flow induced vibrations and noise, aerosols, laminar-to-turbulent transition, and flow control. The associated research involves a combination of experimental, analytical, and numerical tools, with the main emphasis placed on experiments involving particle image velocimetry. His research in Canada was interposed by sabbatical leaves at TU Delft and the University of Bundeswehr Munich, in 2013-2014 and 2019-2020, respectively, involving collaborative research with advanced flow diagnostic tools and volumetric measurements. Dr. Yarusevych is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, Mercator Fellow, and Associate Fellow of AIAA. Since 2018, Dr. Yarusevych has been serving as an Editor-in-Chief of Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Elsevier.

Prof. Dongsheng Wen is the 8^th Chair of the Institute of Thermodynamics, Technical University of Munich. He received BEng in Aeronautics from Beihang University, MSc in Thermophysics from Tsinghua University and DPhil in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford. Prior to his current position, he was the Chair Professor at the University of Leeds and Beihang University, and had he worked in various academic positions at the Queen Mary University of London.

His research is focused on heat: namely, how heat is produced, transported, stored and utilized across different scales via nanomaterials / nano-surfaces with targeted applications in energy and aerospace engineering. He has taken a multiscale approach, both experimentally and numerically from nanoscale to bulk scale, to investigate fundamentals of flow, heat transfer and reactions across scales, and apply these fundamentals cross-disciplinarily into different sectors. His research has produced over 20 patents, ~350 referred journal publications, with total citation of ~23000 and current H-index = 68. He is a member of the Academia of Europaea (MAE), an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) and the Energy Institute (FEI),  the Editor-in-Chief of <Advance in Aerodynamics>,  and Associate Editor/Subject Editor in Transfer Processes of <Applied Thermal Engineering>

Website: https://www.epc.ed.tum.de/en/td

Dr. Zan Wu is full professor at College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University in China. He is the founder and leader of the Advanced Electronics Cooling Laboratory. Dr. Zan Wu received his B.S. and Ph.D. both from College of Energy Engineering at Zhejiang University. He then worked in Sweden for 10 years as postdoctoral fellow, senior researcher and associate professor, all at Department of Energy Sciences, Lund University. The main research interests of his team include interdisciplinary research topics such as cooling of high-heat flux chips, thermal packaging of power electronics, microfluidics and micro-rectors. He has co-authored 100+ peer-reviewed journal articles, 30+ peer-reviewed conference papers, and 8 invited monographs and book chapters. He is a receipt of the Starting Grant Award by the Swedish Research Council, and the Yangtze River Chaired Professorship by the Ministry of Education of China. He serves as a scientific council member of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT), and as associate editor of the Heat Transfer Engineering journal.