Plenary speakers
- Guazzelli, Elisabeth – MSC, Paris
- Meiburg Eckart – University of California, Santa Barbara
- Ni Mingjiu – Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Keynote speakers
- Popinet Stephane – IJLR D’Alembert, Paris
- Simonin Olivier – IMFT, Toulouse
- Ando Keita – Keio University
- Bucci Matteo – MIT, Boston
- Coletti Filippo – ETH Zürich
- Wachs Anthony – Univ. Bristish Columbia , Vancouver
- Duprat Camille – Ladhyx, Paris
- Eckert Kerstin – TU Dresden
- Deike Luc – Princeton University
- Johnsen Eric – University of Michigan
- Schlüter Michael – TUHH, Hamburg
- Huisman Sander – University of Twente
Plenary speakers
Elisabeth Guazzelli
Élisabeth Guazzelli's research interests are in the field of particulate multiphase flows, including granular suspensions, sedimentation processes, and sediment transport. She has spent her entire career as a CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) researcher, animating a very active and diversified research group at the IUSTI Laboratory of Aix-Marseille Université, and has now moved to the MSC (Matière et Systèmes Complexes) Laboratory of Université Paris Cité. She is a Rector of the International Center for Mechanical Sciences in Udine (Italy). She has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics since 2005 and is currently JFM Rapids Editor. Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) since 2008 and of the European Mechanics Society (EUROMECH) since 2010, she is the recipient of the EUROMECH Fluid Mechanics Prize 2016, of the APS Fluid Dynamics Prize 2023, and of the Gay-Lussac-Humboldt Prize 2024. She was elected an international member of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti in 2020 and of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2021.
Eckart Meiburg
Eckart Meiburg received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1986. After a postdoctoral stay at Stanford University and faculty appointments at Brown University and the University of Southern California, he joined UC Santa Barbara in 2000, where he currently is a distinguished professor of Mechanical Engineering. He is a recipient of the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award and the Humboldt Senior Research Award, a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, a past chair of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society, and he serves as Associate Editor for Physical Review Fluids. His research interests lie in the general area of fluid dynamics and transport phenomena, with a focus on multiphase and environmental fluid mechanics.
Ming-Jiu Ni
Ming-Jiu Ni is a Chair Professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). He received his Ph.D. from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1997 and was a JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) postdoctoral fellow at Kyoto University from 1999 to 2001, where he conducted research on gas-liquid interfacial fluid mechanics and computational fluid dynamics. From 2001 to 2007, he worked at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). After returning to China, he has been actively engaged in research on multiphase flow and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in magnetically confined nuclear fusion. Ming-Jiu has published over 100 papers in leading fluid mechanics and fusion-related journals. He has been awarded several major research grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), including the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars and key instrumentation projects. He has twice served as the chief scientist of China’s National Magnetic Confinement Fusion Energy Program. Additionally, he has been a scientific committee member for the International Conference on Fusion Technology (2011–2022) and the International Symposium on Electromagnetic Processing of Materials.
KEYNOTE speakers
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 Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering & Mechanics at the University of Minnesota, which he joined in 2014, and held visiting professor positions in IMFT Toulouse and ENS Lyon. He performed his doctoral studies at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics and at the University of Stuttgart, where he obtained his PhD in 2010, and was postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University between 2011 and 2013. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2015 and the ERC Consolidator grant in 2022. He serves in the advisory committee of multiple international conferences including Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena and Lisbon Laser & Imaging Techniques, and he plays active roles in the Division Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society. He founded and co-organizes the Fluid Mechanics Tour of the Alps, an itinerant seminar series featuring the world’s top fluid mechanicians. His research interests focus on multiphase flows, which he studies with a range of experimental approaches and with applications to environmental, biomedical, and industrial problems.
Michael Schlüter
Michael Schlüter studied Process Engineering at the University of Bremen and received is PhD at the Institute of Environmental Process Engineering. After his habilitation in the field of multiscale transport phenomena in multiphase flows he changed to the Hamburg University of Technology where he owns the chair of „Fluid Mechanics for Multiphase Systems“ and is head of the Institute of Multiphase Flows. He is chair of the Working Party „Multiphase Fluid Flow“ in the European Federation of Chemical Engineering and since 2023 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.
Eric Johnsen
Eric Johnsen is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan and the Director of the Ph.D. Program in Scientific Computing. He received his B.S. in Mechanical and Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Caltech. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford, he joined the Mechanical Engineering faculty at the University of Michigan in 2010 as an Assistant Professor. His research group develops numerical methods for compressible, turbulent, and multiphase flows, and uses these methods to study the flow physics of fundamental problems motivated by applications in medicine, transportation systems, and the energy sciences. In recent years, his group has focused on interface-resolved methods for compressible multiphase flows to understand shocks produced by bubble collapse, to predict pressures generated by high-speed droplet impact, and to investigate the evolution of interfacial instabilities in inertial confinement fusion. Past honors include the NSF CAREER and ONR Young Investigator awards.
Keita Ando
Dr. Keita Ando is an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Keio University. After his undergraduate study in mechanical engineering at Keio University, he began to study cavitation and bubble dynamics at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and performed theoretical and simulation study on shock propagation in dispersed bubble flow, obtaining a Ph.D. degree in 2010. For his postdoctoral study at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2011, he performed experimental study on bubble nucleation in small-scale underwater explosion, which allows for predicting cavitation inception pressure with the aid of numerical simulation. Currently, in his research group at Keio University, he studies with experimental, experimental, and simulation approaches, acoustic cavitation in the context of cleaning and medical applications.
Luc DEIKE
Luc Deike, is an Associate Professor in the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. Deike joined the faculty in winter 2017, he came from the University of California-San Diego, where he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 2013 to 2016. Deike received his Ph.D. from the University Paris Diderot in 2013 and his M.Sc. and B.Sc. from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2019, the Francois Frenkiel award from the APS-DFD in 2023, and the McGraw Graduate Mentoring Award, from the Princeton University Graduate School and the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning in 2023. His research focuses on fundamental fluid dynamics with an emphasis on multi-scale systems, motivated by their importance in environmental and industrial applications, including ocean-atmosphere interaction, aerosol science, and multi-phase turbulent flows.
Camille Duprat
Camille Duprat is Professor of Mechanics at École polytechnique. She obtained her PhD in Fluid Mechanics at Sorbonne Université. After postdoctoral stays at Princeton University and ESPCI Paris, she joined the faculty at Ecole polytechnique in 2013. Her research focusses on fluid structure interactions at small scale, in particular in situations where fluid-fluid interfaces are important or in systems where viscous forces dominates. She is particularly interested in fiber-liquid interactions, for example the transport of suspensions of flexible fibers in viscous flows, or wetting and elastocapillarity in textiles.
Stephane Popinet
Stéphane Popinet is a Directeur de Recherche at CNRS, based at Institut Jean le Rond d'Alembert of Sorbonne Université, Paris. After receiving a PhD in fluid mechanics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in 2000, he was a research scientist at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric research (NIWA), New Zealand, until 2013. He is interested in the application of numerical methods for fluid mechanics to understand a range of physical phenomena including: multiphase ocean/atmosphere transfers, granular materials, microfluidics, tsunamis and waves. He is also the author of the popular numerical libraries for fluid mechanics Gerris and Basilisk and has been a long-time advocate for open and collaborative science.
Kerstin Eckert
Dr. Kerstin Eckert has studied physics at TU Dresden and received her PhD in experimental physics at Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. Since 2016 she is professor for Transport Processes at Interfaces at TU Dresden and department head at the Helmholtz-Center Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) where she has initiatiated the Center of Interfaces Studies in 2024. Since 2025 she is co-director of the Institute of Fluid Dynamics at HZDR. The research in her group is devoted to the multi-phase flows in resource technologies, such as flotation, magnetic separation, and in hydrogen production. A special focus is on scale-bridging research from small-scales, e.g., film rupture between coalescing bubbles, towards the hydrodynamics on larger reactors or electrolyzers, including development of measurement techniques. Kerstin Eckert is the coordinator of European projects in mineral processing, such as the European Industry Doctorate programme FlotSim, and of national and international project on hydrogen research.
Sander Huisman
Sander Huisman studied physics at the University of Twente, Netherlands and performed his internship on bubble coalescence at the Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse. He obtained his PhD at the University of Twente on Taylor–Couette turbulence. During his PostDoc at the École normale supérieure de Lyon he looked at the settling of particles and the dynamics of particles in homogeneous isotropic turbulence and worked on matching algorithms for particle tracking velocimetry purposes. His scientific interests are the mass, momentum, and thermal transfer in turbulent flows with or without inclusions like bubbles, particles, and drops in a variety of geometries: Rayleigh–Bénard, Taylor–Couette, von Kármán, channel, pipe flows, jet flow, shear flow, and homogeneous isotropic turbulence. I’m now focusing on turbulent flows with bubbles, particles, and droplets, but also with phase transitions (nucleation, cavitation, boiling, melting, dissolution, freezing, evaporation). I have a keen interest in applying measurements techniques, like laser Doppler anemometry, particle tracking velocimetry, and high-speed particle image velocimetry, to the aforementioned geometries, and develop new algorithms and methods to analyze 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 pertain 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.
Matteo BUCCI
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. Matteo is also co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Ferveret Inc., developing immersion cooling techology for data center cooling.
Olivier Simonin
Olivier Simonin is a Professor at Toulouse INP in the Department of Fluid Mechanics, Energy and Environment at ENSEEIHT, and carries out his research at IMFT (Toulouse Institute of Fluid Mechanics, CNRS / Toulouse INP / Université de Toulouse). After graduating from ENSTA Paris in 1979 with a degree in Ocean, Climate and Environment, he obtained a PhD on turbulence-radiation interaction in the atmosphere in 1981. He began his career in R&D at EDF's Laboratoire National d'Hydraulique in Chatou, where he remained for almost twenty years (1983-2001), working on the modeling and simulation of sodium and water-vapor flows in nuclear reactors, reactive gas-solid flows in coal furnaces and thermal plasma flows in electric arcs. In 1994, he obtained his habilitation to direct research and, in 1996, became a part-time associate professor at ENSEEIHT, before being recruited by Toulouse INP as a University Professor in 2001. From 2000 to 2006, he served as Director of IMFT. In 2006, he took on responsibilities within Toulouse INP as Vice-Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board, and from 2008 within PRES Université de Toulouse as Director of the Research and Doctorate Department. Finally, he held the position of President of Toulouse INP for two terms, from April 2012 to July 2020. His research at IMFT is focusing on the modeling and simulation of very dilute to dense particle-laden flows using a multi-scale approach based on: direct simulations of particle-resolved flows, mesoscale Euler-Lagrange simulations (DPS/LES or DEM/CFD), statistical modeling approach based on joint fluid-particle PDF and kinetic theory of granular media. Finally, he is making a major contribution to the development of a multi-fluid HPC numerical code, neptune_cfd, notably for the prediction of industrial reactive fluidized beds in support of the development of new processes for sustainable development.
