Prof. Dr. José Pereira has a degree in Materials Engineering (pre-bologna) from the Higher Technical Institute, University of Lisbon, and has a Master's Degree in the same area from the Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon. He was technical advisor of a State laboratory in the field of the quality control of textiles and composites for more than a dozen years. He also participated in several I&D projects, as a researcher, a project manager, and a local advisor in the materials science and engineering area, especially in the synthesis, characterization, and evaluation of innovative materials at the University of Lisbon, the University of Oporto, and the University of Coimbra. He recently joined the IN+ team as a researcher in the Thermofluids, Combustion, and Energy Systems Laboratory, where he studys and selects new materials for superhydrophobic surfaces operating at extreme wettability conditions.

Dr. Reinaldo Souza is currently a researcher at the Mechanical Engineering and Resource Sustainability Center (MEtRICs), University of Minho, Campus de Azurém, Guimarães, Portugal, under the supervision of PhD Professor Rui Alberto Madeira Macedo de Lima. He graduated in Physics from UFSC, having completed one bachelor’s degree in 2005 and another bachelor’s degree in 2007. He received a master’s in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina in the area of Thermal Sciences in 2010 and received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the same institution and research area in 2014. He was a face-to-face tutor for the Physics degree course in distance learning (Ead) at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. He was a substitute professor of Physics at the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina (IFSC). He participated in a research project (in 2007) developed at Lepten/Boiling at UFSC with the support of the Brazilian Space Agency—AEB and the Brazilian Aerospace Institute—IAE through the Microgravity Program. His research interests include nanofluids, heat transfer, thermal conductivity, and pool boiling.

Prof. António Moreira received a Ph. D. in Experimental Combustion from Instituto Superior Técnico of the University of Lisbon where he is currently an Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Mechanical Engineering Department and researcher in the Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research (IN+). His main academic and research interests are in the areas of Thermofluids, Combustion and Energy Systems, having developed research on the use of advanced techniques for fluid dynamics studies. Recent research activities focus on the multi-scale transport phenomena occurring at solid-liquid interfaces with innovative potential for multidisciplinary application domains. In this area, he founded the Laboratory of Micro Scale Interfacial Phenomena at the Mechanical Engineering Department of IST. He coordinated and/or participated in multiple R&D projects in energy and micro-fluidics and has published more than 200 research papers in conference proceedings and journals with peer review. In addition to serving on the Organizing Committee of several International Conferences in fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer, he has been a member of the Scientific Council of the ICHMT and Chairman of the International Symposium on Applications of Laser Techniques to Fluid Mechanics since 2005. He has also been active in the area of automotive propulsion, coordinating European projects of technology development and directing and more recently an industrial association of the sector.

Prof. Ana Moita earned her PhD (2009), MSc (2004), and Diploma Engineer (2001) in Mechanical Engineering in Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon. She is a senior researcher in IN+, Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research/Instituto Superior Técnico, and an Assistant Prof at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa. She developed a strong background in wettability modification strategies, including micro- and nanostructuring techniques applied to surface modification. 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 she prepares all the work of the Laboratory of Interfacial plus Microscale Phenomena at IN+ since 2014. 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. She is a reviewer for numerous international conferences,  journals and funding agencies (including ESA projects), being part of the scientific and or technical committee of 22 international conferences/workshops. She has been Guest-Editor in 3 SI's in Applied Science, Energies and Symmetry, journals from MDPI and part of the Editorial board of Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, Elsevier, since 2022.