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Prof. Dr. Miroslav Grmela

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada
Interests: multiscale nonequilibrium thermodynamics; kinetic theory; mechanics of complex fluids; differential geometry
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Dr. Paride Gullo

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
Interests: eco-friendly refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pump technologies; R744; two-phase ejectors; exergy; renewable energy technologies
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Prof. Dr. Klaus Hack

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Senior Consultant of GTT Technologies, Kaiserstraße 103, 52134 Herzogenrath, Germany
Interests: computational thermodynamics; CALPHAD; Gibbs energy modelling; phase diagrams; thermochemical assessments; teaching thermodynamics; process modelling
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Prof. Dr. Yinnian He

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School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China
Interests: finite element method; finite difference method; Navier-Stokes equations; MHD equations; primitive equations of the ocean; numerical methods for PDEs
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Prof. Dr. Soteris Kalogirou

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Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol 3041, Cyprus
Interests: renewable energy systems; solar energy; solar collectors; solar cooling; solar concentrators

Prof. Dr. Igor Khmelinskii

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Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, and CEOT, University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
Interests: physical chemistry; analytical and food chemistry; photochemistry; education; climate change; critical phenomena
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Prof. Dr. Milivoje M. Kostic

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
Interests: fundamental laws of nature; thermodynamics and heat transfer fundamentals; the second law of thermodynamics and entropy; energy efficiency; conservation and sustainability; fluids-thermal-energy components and systems; nanotechnology and nanofluids
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Prof. Dr. Abraham Marmur

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Professor Emeritus, Chemical Engineering Department, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 3200003, Israel
Interests: contact angle theory and measurement; super-hydrophobic surfaces; nano-bubbles; classical thermodynamics: surfaces; non-ideal solutions; equations of state
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Prof. Dr. Mario Martinelli

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Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milano, Italy
Interests: optical communications; optical signal processing and switching; information transmission; thermodynamics; statistical mechanics; the second law of thermodynamics; reversibility and quantum mechanics; Shannon entropy; Kullback–Leibler divergence; channel capacity
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Prof. Dr. Jose M. Martinez-Val

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Department of Energy and Fluid Mechanics Engineering, Madrid Polytechnical University, C/José Gutiérrez Abascal No. 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain
Interests: thermodynamics; heat transfer; energy; solar energy; fusion energy
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Prof. Dr. Mehrdad Massoudi

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Department of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA
Interests: multi-component flows; non-Newtonian fluids; granular materials; heat transfer; mathematical modelling

Prof. Dr. Themis Matsoukas

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 313 Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Interests: statisitical thermodynamics; population balances and their application to multicomponent systems; deterministic and stochastic simulation of particulate processes; clustering and fragmentation on discrete graphs; statistical mechanics of stochastic processes; nanocolloids and aerosols
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Prof. Dr. Alejandro Medina

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Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
Interests: energy converters; brayton power plants; solar thermal energy; thermodynamic optimization
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Prof. Dr. Tatiana Morosuk

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Institute for Energy Engineering, Technische Universität Berlin, Marchstr. 18, 10587 Berlin, Germany
Interests: LNG; hydrogen economy; energy engineering and refrigeration; energy storage; applied thermodynamics; exergy-based methods; development of energy; energy costs; environmentally effective energy-conversion technologies
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Prof. Dr. Abraham Nitzan

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Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania and School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 39040, Israel
Interests: activation; relaxation; energy transfer; transport; optical response; chemical reaction processes in molecular systems and interfaces

Dr. Ilya Polishuk

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Department of Chemical Engineering, Ariel University, Ariel 40700, Israel
Interests: thermodynamic properties; transport properties; phase equilibria; surface tension; equations of state; SAFT
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Prof. Dr. Amilcare Porporato

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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Interests: near-wall turbulence; nonlinear analysis of hydrologic time series; stochastic soil moisture dynamics and water balance; soil-atmosphere interaction; and ecohydrology, complexity in the environment and sustainable use of soil and water resources

Prof. Dr. José Miguel Mateos Roco

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Department of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
Interests: thermodynamics; statistical physics; heat engines
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Prof. Dr. Tommaso Ruggeri

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Alma Mater Research Center on Applied Mathematics, Università degli Studi di Bologna, 40121 Bologna, Italy
Interests: rational extended thermodynamics; non-equilibrium thermodynamics; classical and relativistic fluids; kinetic theory; non-linear waves; gas mixtures; entropy principle; hyperbolic systems

Prof. Dr. Peter Salamon

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Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182-7720, USA
Interests: finite-time thermodynamics; geometrical thermodynamics; biomathematics; optimization and mathematical modeling
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Dr. Jürn W.P. Schmelzer

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Institute of Physics, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 23–25, 18059 Rostock, Germany
Interests: glass and the glass transition, thermodynamics, structure, rheology, relaxation, and crystallization kinetics; thermodynamics and kinetics of first-order phase transitions, theory and applications; crystal nucleation and interplay of crystallization and glass transition
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Prof. Dr. Khellil Sefiane

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Institute for Materials and Processes, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, UK
Interests: multiphase flows; interfaces and phase change from nano- to macro-scales; multiscale thermofluids

Prof. Dr. Mikhail Sheremet

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Laboratory on Convective Heat and Mass Transfer and Department of Theoretical Mechanics, Tomsk State University, 36 Lenin Ave., 634050 Tomsk, Russia
Interests: heat and mass transfer; natural convection; porous media; phase change materials; computational fluid dynamics; heat transfer enhancement
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Dr. Jean-Marc Simon

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Laboratoire ICB, UMR 6303, Université Bourgogne-Franche Comté, 21078 Dijon, France
Interests: thermodynamics; adsorption; nonequilibrium thermodynamics; statistical mechanics; molecular simulation; thermodynamics of small systems

Prof. Dr. Robert H. Swendsen

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Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA
Interests: physics; condensed matter; statistical mechanics; inverse problems

Dr. Péter Ván

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Department of Theoretical Physics, Institute for Particle and Nuclear Physics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 29-33, 1121 Budapest, Hungary
Interests: fundamental aspects of non-equilibrium thermodynamics; continuum physics; heat conduction; relativistic and non-relativistic dissipative fluids
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Prof. Dr. Yongqi Wang

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
Interests: continuum mechanics and thermodynamics; theoretical fluid mechanics and computational fluid dynamics; granular flows and avalanches; multiphase flows; interface flows; rheology/flows of non-Newtonian fluids; hydrodynamics of lakes and limnology
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Prof. Dr. Leslie Woodcock

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Department of Physics, University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
Interests: chemical thermodynamics; phase transitions; percolation transitions; colloid science; molecular theory of liquids
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Prof. Dr. William Worek

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stony Brook University, New York, NY 11794, USA
Interests: heat and mass transfer; fluid flow; thermodynamics as applied to energy efficiency; renewable and sustainable energy systems; single and multicomponent absorption; adsorption processes in liquid and solid desiccants; heating and cooling components

Prof. Dr. Jianzhong Wu

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Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA
Interests: molecular thermodynamics; liquid-state theory; statistical thermodynamics
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