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, the Killam Annual Professorship, and has been elected as a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. 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. Alfredo Soldati
Since 2016 Alfredo Soldati is Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the Technische UniversitŠt Wien. Before he was Professor in Udine (Italy). The focus of the research of his Fluid Mechanics group is on multiphase dispersed flows, trying to capture the inherent multiscale aspects from the fundamentals to the applications. Numerical Simulations have been recently complemented by an experimental activity. Researches on turbulent dispersed flows of particles, bubbles, droplets and fibers apply to industrial problems and environmental protection with a recent twist on geophysical and biomedical applications. Prof. Soldati is fellow of the American Physical Society, and the recipient of the 2007 Knapp award and of the 2015 Lewis F. Moody Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is currently Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Multiphase Flow.
Dr. Francesco Zonta
Dr. Francesco Zonta graduated in Mechanical Engineering in 2006 at the University of Udine, where he also completed his PhD in 2010. From 2010 to 2016 he has been Research Assistant at the University of Udine and at the University of Torino. In 2014, he has been invited scholar at the University Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC, Paris). Since 2016, he is Senior Researcher at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer of the Vienna University of Technology. His research focuses on turbulence, heat transfer, multiphase flows and computational fluid dynamics. He has obtained a number of grants for HPC (High Performance Computing) applications, and he has recently been the recipient of ''Ermanno Grinzato'' prize awarded by AIPT (2013).
Dr. Irene Reichl
Dr. Irene Reichl studied Technical Physics at TU Wien. She did her master thesis in quantum field theory (2002) and her PhD thesis in computational materials science (2005). Her post-doc project at the University of Vienna, Institute of Sports Science, focused on the numerical analysis of human knee joint kinematics (2006-2014). Then she started working in the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC) team at TU Wien where she is involved in training in parallel computing, especially with MPI and OpenMP.