Ramiro Godoy-Diana
(ESPCI Paris; CNRS, France)

Ramiro Godoy-Diana is a CNRS research scientist at the Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes laboratory (PMMH) at ESPCI in Paris, France. Physical engineer from the Tec de Monterrey (México, 1994), he holds a Master in Physics from the UNAM (México, 1999) and a PhD in fluid dynamics from École Polytechnique (France, 2004). His experimental fluid dynamics work has included research on ocean wave energy, geophysical fluid dynamics, wake instabilities, fluid-structure interaction and bio-inspired propulsion. He co-heads the Biomimetics and fluid-structure interaction group at PMMH.

Roberto Verzicco
(Univ. Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)

Roberto Verzicco is full professor in Fluid Dynamics at the University of Roma `Tor Vergata' and at the Gran Sasso Science Institute of L'Aquila. Since 2010 he is also part-time Professor at the University of Twente.
He is doing research in the fields of experimental and numerical fluid dynamics and from 1993 he has published more than 260 papers in international journals and 3 solicited reviews. He is involved, in particular, in the direct numerical simulation of turbulent flows, convective turbulence, geophysical flows and bio-fluid mechanics. He has investigated also complex three-dimensional flows of industrial interest using Large-Eddy-Simulation techniques.
He has organized several international conferences, workshops and colloquia and in 2012 he organised the 9th European Fluid Mechanics Conference in Rome. He has been Chairman of the European Fluid Mechanics Conference Committee and member of the EUROMECH Council.
He has served the evaluation committees, international panels and the Editorial Boards of several international journals and is presently Associate Editor of Journal of Fluid Mechanics.
In 2005 he received the Frenkiel Award from the American Physical Society for his studies on natural convection and in 2022 the Corrsin Award for the development of immersed boundary methods. In 2012 he has been nominated EUROMECH Fellow and in 2013 APS Fellow.

David Saintillan
(University of California San Diego, USA)

Professor David Saintillan received a B.S. in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique, France, in 2001, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2003 and 2006. He then worked as a Junior Research Scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University and as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He joined UCSD in 2013, where he is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and currently serves on the editorial boards of Physical Review Fluids and Physical Review X.

Alessandro Parente
(Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Alessandro Parente got his PhD at the University of Pisa in collaboration with the University of Utah, where he served as a Research Associate from November 2007 to December 2009. In April 2009, Dr. Parente started working at the von Karman Institute of Fluid Dynamics. In October 2010, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the Aero-Thermo-Mechanical Department of Université Libre de Bruxelles. Since 2019, he has been a Professor at the same Institution. He currently leads the Brussels Institute for Thermal Fluid Systems and Clean Energy (BRITE).

Fabien HALTER
(University of Orléans, France)

Fabien Halter is Professor at the University of Orléans and Director of the Research Federation for Innovation and Energy Transition. His research interests include: gas-phase laminar and turbulent combustion and metal particle combustion for propulsion, explosion and as a carbon-free energy carrier. He is on the editorial board of Combustion and Flame. He is a distinguished fellow of the Combustion Institute.

Thierry Schuller
(Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, IMFT, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France AND Institut Universitaire de France, France)

Thierry Schuller is Professor at Université Toulouse (France) and is member of Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT): https://www.imft.fr/pages-personnelles/schuller-thierry/). He is also member of Institut Universitaire de France: https://www.iufrance.fr/les-membres-de-liuf/membre/2607-thierry-schuller.html

Sanjiva K Lele
(Stanford University, USA)

Sanjiva Lele is Edward C. Wells Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford University with joint appointments in Aeronautics & Astronautics and Mechanical Engineering Departments and active with the Center for Turbulence Research. He received his B Tech. from IIT Kanpur, India and PhD from Cornell University. His research combines numerical simulations with physical modeling to study fundamental unsteady flow phenomena, transition and turbulence in high-speed flows, and aeroacoustics. He is also interested in developing high-resolution computational methods and reduced order modeling. He is a fellow of APS, an Associate Fellow of AIAA. He received the F. N. Frankiel Award from APS-DFD in 1986, AIAA Aeroacoustics Award in 2016, Distinguished Alumnus Award from IITK in 2016, and best paper awards for joint work with students from AIAA in 2018, 2015, 2012 and 2011, and from ASME in 1999, and SAE in 1998. From 1994-2004 he served as Associate Editor for J. Fluid Mech. He is currently an Associate Editor for Physical Review Fluids.

Daniel Livescu
(Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)

Daniel Bodony
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Daniel J. Bodony is the Blue Waters Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Associate Dean for Graduate, Professional, and Online Programs in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Bodony is a Donald Biggar Willett Faculty Scholar, a President's Executive Leadership Program Fellow (2023-2024), and recently received the Campus Promotion with Distinction Award (2020) and the Rose Award for Teaching Excellence (2022). He received his Ph.D. in Aeronautics & Astronautics from Stanford University in 2005 and joined UIUC in 2006 after working at the NASA Ames/Stanford University Center for Turbulence Research. He received a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2012 in Fluid Dynamics and is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics. His research focuses on the simulation and modeling of high-speed compressible flows, with specialities in fluid-thermal-structural interaction, flow control, and aeroacoustics.

Joerg Schumacher
(TU Ilmenau, Germany)

Jörg Schumacher is a Professor for Fluid Mechanics at the Technische Universitaet Ilmenau (Germany). His recent scientific interest is on fluid turbulence (in particular turbulent convection), machine learning, and applications of quantum computing to fluid flows.

Kirti Chandra Sahu
(Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)

Kirti Sahu is a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, india. He obtained his PhD from JNCASR, Bangalore, in 2007 and was a postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College London from 2006 to 2009. His research interest includes the study of clouds and raindrops, interfacial flows and hydrodynamic instabilities. He is a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Physics, UK. He serves as an associate editor for Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research and an editorial board member for Langmuir. He is serving as a member of the External Affairs Committee - American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics (2024 - 2026).

Gretar Tryggvason
(Johns Hopkins University, USA)

Gretar Tryggvason is the Charles A. Miller, Jr. Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins University and the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He received his PhD from Brown University in 1985 and was on the faculty of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor until 2000, when he moved to Worcester Polytechnic Institute as the head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Between 2010 and 2017 he was the Viola D. Hank professor at the University of Notre Dame and the chair of the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. Professor Tryggvason is well known for his contributions to computational fluid dynamics; particularly the development of methods for computations of multiphase flows and for pioneering direct numerical simulations of such flows. He served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computational Physics 2002-2015, is a fellow of APS, ASME and AAAS, and the recipient of several awards, including the 2012 ASME Fluids Engineering Award and the 2019 ASTFE Award.

Cristian Marchioli
(University of Udine, Italy)

Cristian Marchioli is Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Udine, where he coordinates the PhD program in Energy and Environmental Engineering Sciences. Editor of Acta Mechanica, he served as the coordinator of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action COMETE (“Next-Generation Computational Methods for Enhanced Multiphase Flow Processes” and served as chairman of the COST Action “Fiber suspension flow modeling”). Currently, Prof. Marchioli sits in the scientific council of the International Center of Mechanical Sciences, where he coordinated several advanced schools on particles in turbulence over the last decade. His research interests involve multiphase flow modeling, from small-scale particle-turbulence interactions to large-scale modeling of gas-solid/gas-liquid flows.

V Kumaran
(Indian Institute of Science, India)

Prof. V. Kumaran is at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He received his B. Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 1987, and his PhD from Cornell University in 1992. His research is in the areas of statistical mechanics, fluid mechanics and the dynamics of complex fluids. He has received the Bhatnagar Prize for Engineering Science in 2000, and the Infosys Prize for Engineering and Computer Science in 2016.

Omar Kamal Matar
(Imperial College London, United Kingdom)

Omar Matar (OKM), FREng, FAPS, FIChemE, is a Professor of Fluid Mechanics, and Head of Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. His research interests include the use of multi-scale, physics-informed, data-driven methods for the solution of complex non-isothermal multiphase flows with phase change. OKM is the Principal Investigator of the £6.5M programme PREMIERE (PREdictive Modelling with QuantIfication of UncERtainty for MultiphasE Systems) funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UK, which involves Imperial, Birmingham, Cambridge, UCL, the Alan Turing Institute, and a number of industrial and healthcare partners. He has co-authored over 340 refereed papers (>12000 citations and h-index 60) and given over 80 invited talks. He is co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Engineering Mathematics and on the editorial boards of International Journal of Multiphase Flows, Droplet, Engineering, and Fluids.

Han-Sheng Chuang
(Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

Dr. Han-Sheng Chuang is currently a full professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University in 2010. After graduation, he worked with Dr. Haim Bau as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania until the summer of 2011. To date, he has received the 2014 and 2019 Young Researcher Career Grants from the Ministry of Science and Technology, the 2015 Young Scholar Award from the Taiwan Comprehensive University System, and the 2016 Excellent Teaching Award and the 2020 Excellent Research Award from NCKU. Additionally, he was a co-founder of the US-based start-up Microfluidic Innovations from 2009 to 2017. Dr. Chuang has dedicated more than a decade to the bio-microfluidic field, with research interests mainly focused on bio-microfluidics, Bio-MEMS/NEMS, and biosensing technology.

Alessandro Mariotti
(University of Pisa, Italy)

Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering of the University of Pisa (Italy). Head of the wind-tunnel laboratory at the University of Pisa.
Main research activities include experimental and numerical analysis, control of complex flows, wind tunnel tests, high-fidelity simulations, and aerodynamics optimization. Additionally, the focus extends to uncertainty quantification applied to fluid dynamic problems, wind engineering, unsteady aerodynamics, microfluidics for chemical and biomedical applications, hemodynamic studies, thermal management of battery electric vehicles, wind turbines, and combustion processes in perforated burners under premixed conditions. The research activity has resulted in over 60 scientific publications, including 40 papers published in international journals. The h-index is 23, with over 1000 citations (Scopus, December 2023), 1 Italian Patent and 1 International Patent Application (PCT).

Alexander M Leshansky
(Dept. of Chemical Engineering Technion-IIT, Israel)

Madivala G. Basavaraj
(IIT Madras, India)

Emanuela Del Gado
(Georgetown University, USA)

Emanuela Del Gado is a physics Professor and the Director of the Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology at Georgetown University. She was a Marie Curie Fellow and the Swiss National Science Foundation at ETH Zurich, and has held visiting position at MIT, ESPCI Paris, ENS Lyon, and University Paris Saclay. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2018, she is Fellow of the American Physical Society (2021) and Fellow of the Society of Rheology (2023).

Chaouqi Misbah
(CNRS and Univ. Grenoble, France)

C. Misbah is a director of resaerch at CNRS (France) and is working on blood flow theoretically and experimentally, and on cell motility and microswimmer. He is also expert on nonlinear sciences and on pattern formation in nonequlibrium systems.

Koji Fukagata
(Keio University, Japan)

Koji Fukagata received his PhD degrees from KTH, Sweden, as well as The University of Tokyo, Japan, in year 2000. His main research interest is flow control, especially turbulent drag reduction. In addition, he is currently working on applications of machine learning to fluid mechanics. He has been a full professor at Keio University since 2015, and served as an Editor of Flow, Turbulence and Combustion since 2015.

Chao Sun
(Tsinghua University, China)

Melissa Green
(University of Minnesota, USA)

Chantal Staquet
(Laboratory of Geophysical and Industrial Flows, University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, 38000, Grenoble, France)

Professor at University Grenoble Alpes
Research interests:
-internal gravity waves in the deep ocean: resonant interactions, interaction with a thermocline, interaction with a sloping bottom or with a mountain (lee waves), mean flow generation, induced fluid mixing
-atmospheric boundary layer in alpine valleys: dynamics, pollutant transport and air quality, impact of climate change during extreme events in winter (inversions) and in summer (heatwaves)
Personal page: www.legi.grenoble-inp.fr/web/spip.php?auteur53