Prof. Alidad Amirfazli
Before joining the York University as the founding Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Alidad Amirfazli held the Canada Research Chair in Surface Engineering at the University of Alberta, Canada. Amirfazli has produced exciting results in wetting behavior of surfaces, drop adhesion and shedding, understanding and application of superhydrophobic coatings. He has more than 200 scientific contributions, many in prestigious peer reviewed journals; he is the Editor for the Advances in Colloid and Interface Science (IF 6.2). Dr. Amirfazli has been the recipient of the Martha Cook Piper Research prize, Killam Annual Professorship, and Petro-Canada Young Innovator Award. He also served in the board of Professional Engineers of Alberta, and been a consultant with various companies in USA, Europe, and Canada.
Prof. Volfango Bertola
Joined the University of Liverpool in 2011, after holding a Lectureship at the University of Edinburgh (2004-1011) and a Marie Curie Fellowship at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris (2001-2004). In 2009-10 he was Visiting Professor and Lagrange Fellow at Politecnico di Torino (Italy). He has more than 100 scientific publications in the areas of soft matter, multiphase flows, and thermodynamics, including several contributions on non-Newtonian drops and on the dynamic wetting of complex fluids. He has been the recipient of a Royal Academy of Engineering Global Research Award (2009) and the UIT Young Scientist Prize (2001).
Prof. Marco Marengo
Graduated in Physics at the University of Turin cum laude and completed his Ph.D. studies at the Polytechnic of Milan and University of Erlangen with a thesis about 'Drop Impingement on Liquid Film'. He was awarded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) and by the European Community TMR Program. From 1998 to 2002 he was assistant professor of Thermal Physics at the University of Bergamo and then Associate Professor. From 2003 to 2005 he was the University Responsible for the European Research. He is European Editor of the Journal Atomization & Sprays. Visiting Professor at the University of Mons-Hainaut since 2005. He published more than 160 scientific papers, many in peer-reviewed journals about liquid sprays, drop impact, heat pipes, building physics. Prof. Marengo has been founder of two spin-off companies and holds seven patents.
Prof. Sergei Sazhin
Professor Sergei Sazhin has received his PhD in St Petersburg State University (Russia) in 1977. Currently, he is working as Professor of Thermal Physics in the University of Brighton. He is serving as an editorial member of International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation (2007-present), Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Systems Engineering (2012-present) and Journal of Advances in Mechanical Engineering and Sciences (2015-present) & expert reviewer for numerous international journals and conferences. He has authored of more than 460 publications, including 3 monographs and 216 papers in international refereed journals. His current ISI Web of Science citation index is 27. He has supervised 14 successful PhD completions over the past 15 years. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) since 1994. His current research concerns the development of new physical models applied to fluid dynamics and heat/mass transfer processes in internal combustion engines.
Dr. Cyril Crua
Graduated in Mechanical Engineering and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Brighton with a thesis on 'Combustion Processes in a Diesel Engine'. He was awarded the Richard Way Memorial Prize for the best PhD Thesis on Automotive Engineering by the UnICEG (UK Universities Internal Combustion Engine Group). Dr Crua is now a Reader at the Sir Harry Ricardo Laboratories within the University of BrightonÕs Advanced Engineering Centre. He has 17 yearsÕ experience with a focus on experimental fluid dynamics, and particularly on the development and application of optical measurement techniques to investigate the physics of complex flows and atomization.
Dr. Nikos Nikolopoulos
Graduated in Mechanical Engineering and completed his Ph.D. at the National Technical Univeristy of Athens with a thesis on 'Numerical Investigation of the induced Fluid Flow around a Droplet during its impact'. Currently he is working as a Senior Researcher in the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece. He was awarded two years ago a Marie Cuire Invidual Fellowship by the EC on the subject of droplet impingement onto non-flat surfaces and conducted his research at the CITY University of London. He has 15 yearsÕ experience with a focus on numerical fluid dynamics, and particularly on the development of numerical algorithms for the phase change phenomena applicable in liquid droplets and the combustion of solid fuels. He has published more than 85 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences about liquid sprays, drop impact, solid fuels and power plants.
Dr. Anastasios Georgoulas
Anastasios N. Georgoulas received a M.Sc. Degree in Structural Engineering in 2003 at Dept. of Civil Engineering, Edinburgh Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, a M.Sc. Degree in Hydraulic Mechanics in 2006 from the Dept. of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, and in 2010 his Ph.D. degree in the Dept. of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece in Computational Fluid Dynamics of Multiphase flows. On May 2013, he was appointed as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Laboratory of Thermal Physics, University of Bergamo, in Italy. June 2014 - May 2015 he was seconded to Caterpillar Inc (Peterborough, UK). After a short return- phase as a Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Bergamo, from Sept 2015 he has been appointed as Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics in the University of Brighton (UK). He has been involved in various national and international research projects.