Jader Barbosa Jr. is a Professor in the Craft and Hawkins Department of Petroleum Engineering at Louisiana State University (LSU), USA. Until 2024, he was a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London, UK. His academic interests encompass Fluids Engineering and Thermal Sciences, with a particular focus on Geoenergy Engineering, Flow and Thermodynamics of Multiphase and Multicomponent Mixtures, and Emerging Cooling Technologies. Dr. Barbosa has authored over 370 scientific papers published in indexed journals and presented at international peer-reviewed conferences. He is also a co-author of four patent applications and one book. During his tenure at UFSC, he supervised or co-supervised 47 undergraduate capstone projects and 54 theses/dissertations, six of which received the CAPES or ABCM/Embraer Prizes. He serves as a member of the International Technical Advisory Committee of the THERMAG and Multiphase Production Conferences and the Scientific Council of the International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT). He is also the President of the Assembly of World Conferences on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics, and Thermodynamics (ExHFT). Dr. Barbosa is currently a Subject Editor for Applied Thermal Engineering (Elsevier)