Americas
Arezoo Ardekani, Purdue University, USA
Marcus Herrmann, Arizona State
Dorrin Jarrahbashi, Texas A&M University, USA
Juliana Loureiro Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rigoberto Morales, Federal University of Technology Paraná, Brazil,
Anthony Wachs, UBC, Canada
Arezoo Ardekani
Arezoo Ardekani is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University and Associate Head of Faculty Affairs and Partnership. Honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Obama, Arezoo has also received an NSF CAREER Award, the Arthur B. Metzner Early Career Award from the Society of Rheology, the Society of Engineering Science (SES) Young Investigator Medal, the Sigma Xi Mid-career Research Award, and is named a Purdue University Faculty Scholar. A Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), Arezoo has also received the College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Awards for Graduate Student Mentorship and Early Career Research, the Amelia Earhart Award, and the Society of Women Engineers Award. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Irvine in 2009 and was a Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT. Her research focuses on the suspensions of particles and swimmers as well as multiphase flows. Arezoo is an Associate Editor of Physical Review Fluids and ASME Applied Mechanics Review, an Editorial Advisory Board Member of the International Journal of Multiphase Flow and the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. She was a co-chair of the 2022 APS-DFD meeting held in Indianapolis.
Marcus Herrmann
Marcus Herrmann is a Professor in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy at Arizona State University. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University in Aachen, Germany in 2001 and was a post-doc and research associate at the Center for Turbulence Research and the Center for Integrated Turbulence Simulations at Stanford University from 2002 to 2007. His research is in the area of computational fluid dynamics for turbulent liquid/gas interfacial flows in both incompressible and supersonic flow environments. His specific area of interest is in understanding and predicting the primary atomization processes of injected liquids with applications ranging from fuel injection systems to medical sprays. He currently serves as the Chair of the Institute of Liquid Atomization and Sprays Systems (ILASS) in the Americas and as the Editor-in-Chief for the Americas of the journal Atomization and Sprays.
Dorrin Jarrahbashi
Dorrin Jarrahbashi is an Associate Professor at the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering and affiliated with the Aerospace Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. She completed her post-doctoral studies at Georgia Institute of Technology and received her PhD in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on developing computational modeling of compressible and high-pressure reacting and non-reacting multiphase flow behavior with applications in high-speed propulsion systems and nanoparticle spray deposition to fabricate functional Coatings. She is the recipient of NSF CAREER Award from the Fluid Dynamics Program, 2024 Dean of Engineering Excellence Award, 2024 Texas A&M University Pathway Award, the American Physical Society-Division of Fluid Dynamics Gallery of Fluid Motion award, and the Society of Women Engineers Award. She currently leads projects supported by NSF, Office of Naval Research, and industry and has published her work in Nature, Fuel, Combustion & Flame, and Journal of Fluid Mechanics, featuring on the journal cover.
Juliana B. R. Loureiro
Dr. Juliana B. R. Loureiro is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and holds BSc (2002), MSc (2004), and DSc (2008) degrees in Mechanical Engineering (UFRJ). She is a Postgraduate Academic Officer of the Technology Center of UFRJ, a member of IUTAM’s GMM Member (representing Brazil), and IUTAM´s Congress Committee Member. She is the head of the Laboratory on Applied Instrumentation in Petroleum Engineering and Vice-Head of the Multiphase Flow Laboratory at UFRJ. Dr. Loureiro has worked at the Scientific Division of the Brazilian National Metrology Institute, and was Academic Dean of UFRJ’s Engineering School, from 2018 to 2019. She was Top-three finalist for the ANP National Technological Innovation Award in 2017 and 2023. Her main subjects are fluid mechanics, experimental techniques and instrumentation. Dr. Loureiro has worked on multiphase flows, scaling formation, flows in supercritical conditions, non-Newtonian fluids, particle flows, wall turbulence, boundary layer theory, and separated flows. She has published about 40 journal papers, 140 conference papers, and 3 book chapters. Over the last fourteen years, Dr. Loureiro has coordinated more than 20 academic and industry projects and has held many positions at the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), as Associate Editor of the Annals of ABC, the Ministry of Education of Brazil (Capes), ABCM (Brazilian Society of Mech. Eng. and Sci.) and UFRJ.
Rigoberto E. M. Morales
Rigoberto Morales is a full professor at the Federal University of Technology Paraná (UTFPR), Curitiba, Brazil. He is also the head of the NUEM – Multiphase Flow Research Center, UTFPR, one of Brazil’s most important research centers in its field. He is an associated editor of the Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing (Begell House), and Secretary of the Fluid Mechanics Committee of the Brazilian Association of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering (ABCM). He served as editor of the special edition of the Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering – 2022 (Springer) on Flow Assurance. He has developed several R&D&I projects, both fundamental and applied, in the fields of Flow Assurance and Multiphase Flow in Pipes and Equipment, sponsored by the Energy industry. Prof. Rigoberto has authored over 350 articles in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals and in both national and international conferences. He supervised and co-supervised 15 PhD and 35 MSc students. He received a noteworthy number of awards, the most relevant one being the Petrobras Technology Prize - 2008, the CAPES PhD Thesis Prize - 2021 and prize for the best PhD Thesis - 2022. He keeps close relationship with renowned research centers and laboratories in Europe, the UK and the United States. His areas of expertise are the characterization and modelling of two-phase gas-liquid flows in pipes and through complex geometries (centrifugal pumps, separators, valves, and so on) and heat and mass transfer in multiphase flows
Anthony Wachs
Anthony Wachs is a Professor in the department of Mathematics at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. He received his PhD from the University of Grenoble in 2000, then worked for 15 years at the French Petroleum Institute (now IFP Energies nouvelles) as research engineer and scientific advisor in Fluid Mechanics and High Performance Computing, later joined UBC in 2015 as an Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018 and eventually to Full Professor in 2020. At UBC, he is co-affiliated in the department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and holds associate memberships in the department of Mechanical Engineering and in the department of Computer Science. His research interests pertains to the dynamics of granular and particle-laden flows through the analysis of data produced by numerical simulation. He has been contributing over the years to the following three areas: (i) development of in-house massively parallel scientific codes based on advanced numerical methods, (ii) mechanics of granular materials and suspensions made of non-spherical particles, and (iii) multi-scale analysis and design of reduced-order models of particle-laden flows. He is currently a member of the editorial board of Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics and of the editorial board of Communications of Computational Physics.
Asia-Australia
Akimaro Kawahara, Kumamoto University, Japan
Shuichiro Miwa, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Hyungmin Park, Seoul National University, Korea
Tomio Okawa, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Zhaosheng Yu, Zhejiang University, China
Jie Zhang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Akimaro Kawahara
Akimaro Kawahara is a Professor at Faculty of Advanced Science and Technology, Kumamoto University, Japan, since 2018. He received his doctoral degree in 1998 from Kumamoto University. He was formerly an assistant professor (1990-1999), then lecturer (1999-2002) and an associate professor at Kumamoto University (2002-2018). In 2001, he studied at the University of Toronto as a fellowship researcher of the Japanese Ministry Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. He received the Young Researcher award in 1999 and the Contribution award in 2010and the Paper award in 2020 from the Japan Society of Multiphase Flow, and Fluids Engineering Division (FED) award and the Contribution award in 2024 from FED in the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. His research is concerned with multiphase flow, especially gas–liquid two-phase flow. So, his current research topics cover the improvement of subchannel analysis code for predicting thermo-hydraulic behavior of coolant in BWR, the industrial applications of a multi-fluids mixer invented by him which can generate micro-bubbles, mist and emulsion, etc., and the derivation of the correlations of two-phase flow parameters applicable to micro-, mini- and small-diameter channels. He has published 100 articles in refereed journals and more than 120 articles in international conferences.
Shuichiro Miwa
Shuichiro Miwa is an Associate Professor at the Nuclear Professional School (NPS) of the University of Tokyo, Japan. He earned his B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2005, followed by an M.S. in 2008 and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering in 2012, all from Purdue University. In 2013, he was appointed as an Assistant Professor at Hokkaido University, where he received numerous prestigious accolades, including the Exploratory Research Award from the Japanese Society for Multiphase Flow (JSMF), the Early Career Award and Technical Achievement Award from the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, and the Medal for Outstanding Paper from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME). He has held his current position at the University of Tokyo since 2021. Dr. Miwa's research focuses on gas-liquid two-phase flow modeling, particularly in fluid-structure interaction problems, the integration of AI into nuclear thermal-hydraulics, the development of passive safety systems, and providing technical support for the Fukushima Daiichi decommissioning. He has co-authored over 150 journal articles and international conference proceedings and has delivered keynote speeches at prominent conferences, including ICMF 2023 and NURETH-20. In addition, he actively contributes as an organizer of the Japan-U.S. Seminar on Two-Phase Flow Dynamics and serves on various technical review committees for the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA).
Hyungmin Park
Hyungmin Park is a full professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University, where he leads the Multiphase Flow and Flow Visualization (MFFV) Lab. His research covers a broad range of fluid dynamics and multiphase flow topics, including the fundamental and applied aspects of bubbles and bubbly flow, particle-laden flows and ventilation, deformation of gas-liquid and liquid-liquid interfaces by rising or sinking objects, impact of liquid droplets, and oil-water separation. He utilizes a combination of experimental techniques, such as two-phase particle image velocimetry, high-speed shadowgraphy, and event camera sensors, along with numerical simulations and theoretical modeling. Recently, his research has expanded to the development of novel experimental methods leveraging deep learning algorithms to gain more precise insights into underlying mechanisms. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and more than 140 conference papers, and has been invited to present at the International Journal of Multiphase Flow (IJMF) Spotlight Seminar. He has also served on the organizing committees of major conferences, including the International Symposium on Particle Image Velocimetry (ISPIV) 2017, the 11th International Symposium on Cavitation (CAV) 2021, and the 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM) 2024.
Tomio Okawa
Tomio Okawa is a professor at the University of Electro-Communications (UEC), Tokyo, Japan. He received his doctor degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1995 in the field of nuclear engineering. After working at the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI) (1990-1999) and Osaka University (1999-2011), he joined UEC in 2011. His current research topics of interest are the DNB in subcooled flow boiling, quenching of hot wall, pool boiling CHF, breakup of liquid jet, splashing during drop impact, liquid film dryout in annular two-phase flow, etc. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal papers and more than 200 international conference papers. He has given invited talks at major international conferences including 5th and 8th ICMF, 12th Japan-U.S. Seminar on Two-Phase Flow Dynamics, ISTP-32, ATH-2024, APCFS-2024. He served as the TPC Chair of ICONE27, the Conference Chair of ICONE32, the LOC Chair of NTHAS12, the Head of Thermal Hydraulics Division of AESJ, and the Head of Power & Energy Systems Division of JSME.
Zhaosheng Yu
Zhaosheng Yu is currently a professor in the department of Mechanics at Zhejiang University. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Zhejiang University, China, in 1996 and 1999, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 2004. He was a Postdoctoral research fellow in the University of Twente, Netherlands, and then in IFP, France, from 2003 to 2006. He has been working at Zhejiang University since 2006, and was promoted to associate and full professor in 2006 and 2012, respectively. His current research interests include the mechanisms and modeling of the multiphase flows based on fully-resolved direct numerical simulations. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers (including 21 JFM papers). He serves as the head of the multiphase flow professional group in Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, and the associate editor of International Journal of Multiphase Flow. He was a keynote speaker at 11th International Conference on Multiphase Flow in 2023 and a plenary speaker at 5th International Conference on Numerical Methods in Multiphase Flows in 2024
Jie Zhang
Jie Zhang is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU). He earned his B.S. in Thermal Engineering from XJTU and his Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) in 2014. From 2016 to 2017, he was a visiting scholar at the Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT), where he worked with Prof. Jacques Magnaudet. Since joining XJTU in 2015, Jie has been promoted to Associate Professor in 2018 and Full Professor in 2020. His research expertise encompasses fundamental studies of bubbles and droplets in homogeneous and stratified flows, multiphase magnetohydrodynamics, and development of numerical methods for simulating complex multiphase flows. Currently, his work focuses on advancing sharp numerical methods to model 3D multiphase flows with phenomena such as binary evaporation, solidification, melting, and surfactant effects. Jie has published over 30 articles in refereed journals.
Europe/ Africa / Russia
Mickael Bourgoin, CNRS, Ecole Normale Lyon, France
Filippo Coletti, ETH, CH
Valeria Garbin, TU Delft, NL
Cristian Marchioli, Univ Udine, Italy
Veronique Roig, IMFT, France
Michael Schlüter, TUHH, Hamburg, Germany
Mickaël Bourgoin
Mickaël Bourgoin is a CNRS Research Director at the Physics Laboratory of ENS de Lyon, France. He founded the international winter school New Challenges in Turbulence Research (NCTR) in 2008, held biennially in Les Houches (France) since then. In 2013, he organized the 14th European Turbulence Conference in Lyon. He has served the ICMF scientific committee (2009, 2023, 2025) and is currently member of the board of the European Fluid Dynamics Conference Committee. Since 2021, he leads the French National Research Network Navier-Stokes 2.00. His research focuses on the transport of fields and particles in complex, in particular turbulent, flows. Using innovative Lagrangian modeling and experimental approaches, he explores single and multi-phase turbulence, mixing, particle dispersion as well as fluid-structure interactions, bridging fundamental fluid mechanics with industrial, environmental, and health challenges. He has published over 100 articles in international journals and has given over 50 invited oral presentations, including keynote invited lectures at the 9th ICMF (Firenze, 2016) and at the 72th APS-DFD (Seattle, USA) conferences. His work has been recognized with the Euromech Prize for Young Scientists in 2009 and the ONERA Prize of the French Academy of Science in 2022.
Filippo Coletti
Filippo Coletti is Professor of Experimental Fluid Dynamics at ETH Zurich, where he has been since 2020. Previously he was McKnight Land-Grant Professor of Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics at the University of Minnesota, which he joined in 2014. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2015 and the ERC Consolidator grant in 2022, and was visiting professor in IMFT Toulouse and ENS Lyon. He serves in the advisory committee of multiple international conferences (including Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena and Lisbon Laser & Imaging Techniques), and plays active roles in the Division Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society. He is the founder and co-organizer of the Fluid Mechanics Tour of the Alps, an itinerant seminar series featuring the world’s top fluid mechanicians. His research focuses on multiphase flows, using a range of experimental approaches, and has been published in 72 journal articles including 28 Journal of Fluid Mechanics and one Annuar Review of Fluid Mechanics.
Valeria Garbin
Valeria Garbin is Professor of Flow and Dynamics of Soft Matter and head of the section Transport Phenomena in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. She holds a Visiting Professor appointment at Imperial College London where she was an academic staff member from 2012 to 2019. Her research focuses on bubble dynamics in complex fluids. Garbin has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant (2015) and Proof of Concept grant (2022), and an NWO Vici grant (2022); was the 2018 recipient of the McBain medal (RSC/SCI), and the 2020 recipient of the Soft Matter Lectureship (RSC). She is currently Associate Editor for the International Journal of Multiphase Flow (Elsevier) and on the Advisory Board of the journal Soft Matter (RSC). She has co-chaired two international conferences of the Institute of Physics (UK) on particle-laden interfaces in 2021 and 2024. She was on the organizing committee of the Micro and Nano Flows international conference (MNF2021) hosted at Imperial College London. From 2020 to 2024 she has served on the program committee of the annual Burgers Symposium, part of the JMBC research school for fluid mechanics in the Netherlands.
Cristian Marchioli
Cristian Marchioli is a Professor, Dept. Engineering and Architecture, University of Udine, Italy. Editor of Acta Mechanica – Springer since 2017, he sits in the Scientific Council of the International Center of Mechanical Sciences (CISM). He is vice-Chair of ASME’s Multiphase Flow Technical Committee and Corresponding Member for Italy of the Japanese Society of Multiphase Flow. He has organised several scientific events (6th Int. Conf. on Turbulence & Interactions, DLES-13 and ICNMMF-4 in 2022, BICTAM-CISM Symposium on Dispersed Multiphase Flows in 2021 and 2024, among others). His main expertise is in modelling and simulation of multiphase flows, with international collaborations established in Austria, Canada, China, France, India, Japan, Norway and USA. He has published 75+ journal articles and 150+ papers in international conference proceedings, including several keynote lectures (AIMETA in 2011; MFIP in 2014; ICNMMF-3 in 2017; 5th T&I Conf. in 2018, MADRAS Workshop in 2025) and invited talks.
Véronique ROIG
Véronique ROIG is a Professor in Fluid Mechanics, University of Toulouse, France, performing her research at Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse. From 2012, up to now, she has been a board member of the working group ‘Two-Phase Flows’ at Société Hydrotechnique de France (SHF). She has been organizing with SHF, every three years since 2015, the international conference ‘Dispersed Two-Phase Flows’ as chair and co-chair. Her areas of expertise is centered on dispersed flows and include (i) Coupling between dynamics of wakes and bodies free to move (bubbles & cylinders), (ii) Bubbly flows: bubble interactions, bubble-induced agitation, turbulent bubbly flows, mixing, mass transfer, coalescence; (iii) Gas-particles flows, preferential concentration, turbulence modulation; (iv) Transient multiscale gas-liquid flows with self-induced population of gas inclusions; (v) Packed columns for carbon capture; Coupling to thermodynamics: flash-boiling. She is an experimentalist searching for the main mechanisms acting from local to macro scales. She presently works in close collaboration with Spain, Argentina and Germany, and was involved in collaborations with UK and Tunisia as published in her 44 refereed journal articles and 130 papers in international conference proceedings.
Michael Schlüter
Michael Schlüter is Professor and head of the Institute of Multiphase Flows in the faculty of Process Engineering at Hamburg University of Technology. Since 2014 he is the German chair for the “International Symposium on Multiscale Multiphase Process Engineering”, chair of the Working Party „Multiphase Fluid Flow” in the European Federation of Chemical Engineering and member of the Scientific Committee for the "International Conference for Multiphase Flows". From 2014 to 2020 he was coordinator of the DFG Priority Program 1740 “Reactive Bubbly Flows” and since 2023 he is Spokesperson of the DFG Collaborative Research Center 1615 “SMART Reactors”. His research interest is primarily in the field of multiscale transport phenomena in chemical and bioprocess engineering, reactor development, design and scaleup. With his collaboration partners in the US, Japan, Australia, France, Italy, The Netherlands and Germany he published more than 180 articles in refereed journals and several articles in books.
