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)

Matteo Bucci is the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research group studies two-phase heat transfer mechanisms in nuclear reactors and space systems, develops high-resolution non-intrusive diagnostics and surface engineering techniques to enhance two-phase heat transfer, and creates machine learning tools to accelerate data analysis and conduct autonomous heat transfer experiments. He has won several awards for his research and teaching, including the MIT Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Excellence in Teaching (2020), ANS/PAI Outstanding Faculty Award (2018 and 2023), the UIT-Fluent Award (2006), the European Nuclear Education Network Award (2010), and the 2012 ANS Thermal-Hydraulics Division Award. Matteo is the founding editor and deputy Editor-in-Chief of AI Thermal Fluids. He also serves as Editor of Applied Thermal Engineering, is the founder and coordinator of the NSF Thermal Transport Café and works as a consultant for the nuclear industry.

Guillaume Castanet is a research scientist of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He received his PhD degree in Mechanical engineering from the University of Lorraine (Nancy, France) in 2004. Then, he was appointed as postdoctoral fellow for two years at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, where he conducted research activities on the evaporation and the drying of droplets containing solid particles in suspension. Since 2006, Guillaume Castanet has been working in the Laboratory of Energies Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (LEMTA) at the University of Lorraine. His research activities concern heat and mass transfer phenomena in droplet-laden flows and thin liquid films. They address topics such as droplet impact on heating surfaces in relation to spray cooling applications, icing of subcooled droplets, anti-icing systems, heat transfer enhancement in wavy thin liquid films, puffing/micro-explosion of water-in-oil composite droplets, heating and evaporation of closely spaced interacting droplets… Experiments are conducted on several flow configurations: single drops, monodisperse droplet streams, sprays and falling liquid films. A special research interest is focused on the development of non-intrusive optical measurement techniques to characterize heat and mass transfers. However, light scattering at complex liquid/gas and liquid/solid interfaces pose serious challenges for optical measurement techniques. Innovative techniques based on laser-induced fluorescence, are developed using either the intensity of the fluorescence signal or the fluorescence lifetime. They aim at achieving time and space resolved measurements of temperature and chemical composition inside moving and deforming droplets and liquid thin films. The combination of several measurement techniques allows to get an understanding of the couplings between heat and mass transfers, hydrodynamics, and phase changes (evaporation, solidification...).

Guillaume Castanet has published more than 100 papers in journals and conferences proceedings. He is currently a member of the ILASS-Europe committee to promote the science and application of Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems.

Yoshihiro Deguchi received his BE, ME, and DE degrees from Toyohashi University of Technology in 1985, 1987, and 1990, respectively, and after obtaining his DE, he worked for 20 years as a research engineer in the field of applied physics at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. He has been involved in the development of laser diagnostic methods such as tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, laser-induced fluorescence, and laser Raman spectroscopy, and has applied these technologies to industrial fields such as DX (Digital Transformation) and Digital Twin. In 2010, he joined Tokushima University as a full-time professor. He is one of the leading engineers in the practical application of laser diagnostics, especially for industrial systems. In addition to his research activities, he has also encouraged the use of intellectual property. He is a qualified patent attorney and professional engineer, and has been involved in an educational project at Tokushima University to motivate students to invent.

Prof. Hui Jin obtained his Ph.D. at the Xi'an Jiaotong University in 2011, studying under the Chinese Academy of Sciences academician Liejin Guo. He is a professor in State Key Laboratory in Multiphase Flow in Power Engineering in Xi’an Jiaotong University. His research fields focus on a poly-generation technology for hydrogen production, power generation and heat supply based on coal/biomass gasification in supercritical water and relative multiphase thermal physical and chemical theory. He is the winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in National Natural Science Foundation of China, the winner of "Chung-Hua Wu Outstanding Young Scholar Award", the winner of Particuology Young Scholar Award issue by Chinese Society of Particuology, and the leader of Youth Innovative Research Team of Shaanxi Province. He has published more than 100 first/corresponding author SCI papers with more than 10000 citations with H-index 55, 19 papers were indexed as ESI paper, and 4 papers were indexed as hot papers. Dr. Jin also has public or authorized 62 patents and 32 software copyrights. He was awarded first prize by science and technology award in Shaanxi province (ranking 3rd), and the top 10 scientific and technological progress of Chinese universities (ranking 3rd). He was selected in the Stanford University Top 2% Scientists List from 2019 to 2023.

He received his BS and MS at Department of Mechanical Eng., Seoul National University in 1987 and 1989, respectively, and PhD at Department of Mechanical Eng, The Ohio State University in 1994. After spending two years at the OSU as a postdoctoral researcher, he joined JST as a special researcher and TUAT, Tokyo, Japan as a visiting professor in 1997. After spending three years at JST and TUAT, he joined the faculty at Kyung Hee University, Korea in 2000, and moved to Korea University as a full professor in 2014. His research focuses on thermal energy systems including absorption heat pumps, heat exchanger design, refrigeration systems, thermal energy storage, CO2 capture using nanoabsorbents and sorption thermal battery. He published more than 200 international papers and more than 250 conference papers. He is now a member of ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers), KSME (Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers), IIR (International Institute of Refrigeration), JSHRAE (Japanese Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers) and SAREK (Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineers of Korea). In 2010, his lab. was designated as a National Research Lab. by the Ministry of Science and Technology. In 2015, he received the Asian Academic Award jointly from SAREK/CAR/JSRAE. In 2017, he received the best research award from Korea University. In 2018, he was elected as a fellow of The Korean Academy of Science and Technology. He was also elected as a fellow of National Academy of Engineering of Korea in 2020. He served as a director of BK21 plus center for creative research engineers of convergence mechanical systems, School of Mechanical Engineering, Korea University. He is a former president of SAREK in 2022 and now fellow of SAREK and AUTSE. Now he is a director of Research Center for Plus Energy Building Innovative Technology (ERC) sponsored by Korea Government.

Ali Koşar is a Distinguished Research Professor at Sabanci University.   He earned his master's and doctoral degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  He is focusing on the design and development of new generation micro heat sinks with functional surfaces and microfluidic devices including cavitation on chip devices. His research interests constitute a spectrum covering heat and fluid flow in micro/nano scale, condensation, boiling heat transfer, microfluidic systems, and cavitation. He co-authored over 200 research articles in top journals and 100 conference papers in prestigious international conferences. He has also a co-inventor on more than 10 granted patents and 10 pending patent applications. He received numerous national and international honors, including the µFIP Prominent Researcher Award" in the 2021 micro Flow and Interfacial Phenomena (µFIP) Conference, METU (Middle East Technical University) Prof. Mustafa N. Parlar Foundation Science Award (2021).  He is currently leading a large research group consisting of members from various disciplines, graduate students and engineers and to bridge different disciplines (Energy, Nanotechnology, Applied Physics, Bioengineering, Biochemistry, Mechanical Engineering). He also serves as a reviewer in many prestigious journals and is a Subject Editor in the Applied Thermal Engineering journal. He is the Co-director of Center of Excellence for Functional Surfaces and Interfaces for Nano diagnostics (EFSUN), a Distinguished Researcher of Sabanci University Nanotechnology and Application Center (SUNUM) and a Member of Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA).

Dr. Sunny Li is a professor of mechanical engineering at The University of British Columbia (UBC), Okanagan campus. He is the director of UBC Thermal Management and Multiphase Flows Lab, the former Chair of CSME Thermal Science and Engineering Committee, and the Canadian Delegate on The Assembly for International Heat Transfer Conferences. His research centers around the fluid dynamics of multiphase flows and heat transfer involved in high-heat-flux cooling technologies and applications, with focus on the cooling and thermal management for microelectronics and power electronics. Before joining UBC, he was a research scientist in the Electronics Cooling Lab at the Global Research Center of General Electric, Schenectady, New York. He received his MASc and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from University of Toronto in 2004 and 2008, respectively.

Simone Mancin is an Associate Professor of Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer and the Director of the Thermal Energy Innovation research group (www.teiresearch.com) at the University of Padova, Italy.  He is also Visiting Prof. at the Dept. of Chemical Engineering of Brunel University London and member of the Centre for Energy Efficient and Sustainable Technologies of Brunel University London. His research mainly focuses on single- and two- phase heat transfer in enhanced surfaces and micro-geometries for electronic thermal management and air conditioning and refrigeration, phase change materials (PCMs) and Thermochemical material (TCM) for advanced latent thermal energy storages and additive manufacturing for Thermal Science. He is the author or co-author of about 250 papers, most published in the international scientific journals. He is associate editor of HEDH, Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, Journal of Energy Storage, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Heat Transfer Research and he is member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Thermofluids and Energies.

PhD (2009), MSc (2004) and Diploma Engineer (2001) in Mechanical Engineering in Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon Ana Moita is an Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, a senior researcher in IN+, Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research/Instituto Superior Técnico and Director of the Laboratory of Thermofluids, Combustion and Energy Systems of this research center. A.S. Moita developed a strong background in wettability modification strategies, including micro-and-nanostructuring techniques applied to surface modification. In the last years, she has deepened these activities for microscale applications, towards devising microfluidic devices for thermal (energy conversion) and biomedical applications. PI/co-Pi of several national and international projects. Currently she has several projects in collaboration with the industry including a large project with UFRJ - Brasil and Petrobrás, towards the development of a microchannel based heat sink to cool high concentration photovoltaic panels. Through her work and scientific recognition, she gained support from a strong national and international network. Being the supervisor of 8 PhD's (6 in progress), more than 70 Master Thesis, and several working stages (collaborative international programmes), A.S. Moita was an invited lecturer in various conferences/workshops. She received 4 awards/distinctions. She is reviewer for numerous international conferences, more than 70 journals and 5 funding agencies (including ESA projects), being part of the scientific and or technical committee of 22 international conferences/workshops. A.S. Moita published 8 book chapters, more than 200 peer reviewed journal papers, most in Q1 and Q2 journals and around 150 conference papers (H=26, more than 2250 citations by october 2024). She is Guest-Editor in various SI's in journals from MDPI and part of the Editorial board of Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Elsevier, since august 2022.

Dr. Gherhardt Ribatski is Full Professor of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer at the São Carlos School of Engineering, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. He received his BS, MSc. and Doctoral Degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of São Paulo. He held postdoctoral positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) and Universidade da Coruña.  His research interests cover pool boiling, falling-film evaporation and condensation, two-phase flows, flow induced vibration, flow boiling and condensation for external and internal flows, heat transfer enhancement, heat exchangers, phase-change in microchannels, IR thermography wastewater treatment and solar energy.

Prof. Ribatski is member of the Congress Committee of International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) and Brazilian Delegate to the Assembly for International Heat Transfer Conferences. He is member of Assembly of World Conferences on Experimental Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Virtual Institute of Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer, Scientific Council of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer (ICHMT). He was Director Secretary (2016-2017) and is member and President of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering (2018-2021). He has served as coordinator of the CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel- Brazil) committee for evaluation of graduate programs in the areas of Mechanical, Mechatronics, Naval and Ocean, Aeronautical, Industrial and Petroleum Engineering.  He is member of the area panel of Engineering of FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation – Brazil) and was Coordinator of the Graduate Program of Mechanical Engineering at São Carlos School of Engineering (EESC) of University of São Paulo (USP) from 2014 to 2019.

He has advised 13 Doctoral theses, supervised 11 postdoctoral researchers, presented 15 keynote lectures and taken part in the scientific committee of several International Conferences. Dr. Ribatski has over 120 refereed journal publications, 6 book chapters, 1 book and over 130 refereed papers in conferences.

Professor Khellil Sefiane, PhD, HDR, FRSC and FInstP is a Professor and chair of Thermo-Physical Engineering in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh (https://www.ed.ac.uk/), Scotland, United Kingdom. He is the Head of the research Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids (IMT) at the University of Edinburgh. Professor Sefiane is the Vice-Chair of the UK National Heat Transfer Committee, https://www.uknhtc.org/. Professor Sefiane is the UK delegate on the Scientific Council of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer, https://www.ichmt.org/. He also represents the UK on the European Thermal Committee, EUROTHERM, http://www.eurothermcommittee.eu/. He is associate editor for the International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer and has been associate editor for the International Journal of Multiphase Flows and the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer.

He held numerous honorary appointments in international institutions including an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada (2008-2014), Visiting Professor at Kyushu University, Japan (2015) and WPI -World Premier International Professor at the International Centre for Carbon Neutral Energy Research (I2CNER) at Kyushu in Japan (2015-2019), honorary Professor at Tsinghua University in China (2022-2025), Extraordinary Professor at Pretoria University, South Africa (2019) and visiting Professor at University Paris-Saclay, France (2020). He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) and holds an ExxonMobil fellowship and a Global Research Award, both awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering, London. Professor Sefiane has been research active for the last 28 years in various areas related to multiphase flows, heat transfer,  microfluidics, interfacial phenomena and phase change. He has published more than a 250 journal papers in international journals and was co-editor of the textbook Drying of Complex Fluid Drops: Fundamentals and Applications, published by the Royal society of Chemistry (RSC), 2022, https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/ebook/978-1-78801-790-9. He has been recipient of the prestigious Institute of Physics (IoP) award (2009), the Global Research Award by the Royal Academy of Engineering, London (2011) and the Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Award in 2014 and the David Kenning Award in two phase and boiling heat transfer (2024). Professor Sefiane is member of numerous international scientific committees of experts in heat transfer and multiphase flows (ICHMT, EUROTHERM, deputy chair of the Nu-Re Prize and chair of the David B.R. Kenning award committee). Prof. Sefiane taught undergraduate and graduate students at universities in UK, France, Canada, Japan and China. He has been recipient of research grants from the UK research Council (EPSRC), the British Royal Society (RS), the European Union (EU), the European Space Agency (ESA) and industry.

Prof. Yixiang Shi obtained his Bachelor (2003) and PhD (2008) degrees in thermal engineering from Tsinghua University. During 2007–2008, he worked in the University of California, Irvine, as a joint educated PhD candidate. After that, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in MIT during 2008–2009. He was appointed as research assistant (2010–2011), associate professor (2011–2020) and professor (since 2020) in Tsinghua University. His current research activities include fuel cell and electrochemical conversion, CO2 separation and utilization, renewable energy/low grade heat power generation technology. He is the author/coauthor of more than 280 peer-reviewed articles with cites time of more than 6000. Prof. Shi is a committee member of the International Academy of Electrochemical Energy Science (IAOEES), the International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE) and the Tsinghua Science and Technology Association.

He received B.E. (1999) from Tohoku University, and Ph. D. (2004) from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. Leading the Thermal Energy Engineering Lab, he has been pursuing research to advance thermal management, waste heat recovery, and energy harvesting technologies based on nano-to-macro innovation in materials, structures, and systems.

Prof. Shiomi has been leading several projects including Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (S) (JSPS), Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (JST-CREST), Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology (JST-PRESTO), and New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) projects. He is Fellow of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, Member of Science Council of Japan, and Member of Engineering Academy of Japan. He serves as an Associate Editor of Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering.

He is a recipient of the Zeldovich Medal from the Committee on Space Research, the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Educational, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (the Young Scientists’ Prize and the Science and Technology Prize), the Academic award of Heat Transfer Society of Japan, the Academic Award of Thermoelectric Society of Japan, the JSPS Award, and the Nukiyama Memorial Award.

She is currently an Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, with courtesy appointments in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Materials Science Engineering. Dr. Won's research focuses on multiphase thermal science, integrating AI for science and experiment, scientific machine learning, and materials design. She leads the DoD funded multi-university research initiative (MURI), ML4Heat. She is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the ASME Electronic & Photonic Packaging Division Early Career Award, the ASME Electronic & Photonic Packaging Division Women Engineer Award, the ASME ICNMM Outstanding Leadership Award, the Emerging Innovation/Early Career Innovator from UCI Beall Innovation Center, Faculty Excellence in Research Awards (Mid-Career) from UCI, and numerous best paper and poster awards. Yoonjin Won received her B.S. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Seoul National University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. For more information on Dr. Won’s qualifications and research group, please visit won.eng.uci.edu.

Prof. Jinliang Xu is the Director of Key Laboratory of Power Station Energy Transfer Conversion and System of Ministry of Education, China. He was the Dean of School of Energy Power and Mechanical Engineering and the School of Renewable Energy, North China Electric Power University, in the period of 2010-2020. He got PhD at Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1995, and was a post-doctor in Tsinghua University from 1995 to 1997. After four years visiting position in oversea universities, he joined Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion from 2002, and setup the Micro Energy System Laboratory there. He joined North China Electric Power University in 2009 and founded the Beijing Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer for Low Grade Energy Utilizations.

His research interest includes multiphase flow and heat transfer in micro/nano systems, advanced power generation system, low grade energy and renewable energy utilization. He published more than 300 journal papers such as Physics Reports-Review, Small, Nano Letters, Nano Energy, Int J. of Multiphase Flow, etc, as the corresponding author. He has been the highly cited author in recent six years in Energy field. He has been the chair or co-chair for a set of academic conferences such as 4th Micro and Nano Flows Conference (University College London, UK, 7-10 September 2014), IHTS 2014 (International Heat Transfer Symposium 2014, Beijing) and first Int. Conference on supercritical CO2 power system (2018 Being) etc. He is the editor of the journals of Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, Water, Energies, Frontiers in Heat pipe. He is the guest editor for the special issue of Applied Thermal Engineering and Energy. He presented 50 plenary /keynote speeches in international conferences, and has been the reviewer for more than 30 journals. He received the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education, China (first grade). He was "973" project chief scientist, Ministry of Science in the period of 2011-2016 and was named as the "Yangtze River Scholar" Professor by the National Ministry of education, China in 2013.