Dominik Barz, Cornell University, USA Presentation Title: Use of Electrokinetic Phenomena in Microfluidic Devices Dr.-Ing. Dominik P.J. Barz received a B.S. in mechanical engineering at Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany in 1996 after a vocational education as a locksmith. Then, he worked for an engineering company in the field of waste water treatment. During the period of 1997-2001 he had been working as a lab engineer on fuel cells at Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany. At this time, he also obtained a M.S. (summa cum laude) in chemical engineering from Dresden University of Technology, Germany. Further, he received a Ph.D. (summa cum laude) in fluid mechanics from Karlsruhe University of Technology, Germany. From 2001 to 2007 he has been a scientist at Research Centre Karlsruhe, Germany. In 2007 he assumed a scholarship and is presently a Visiting Fellow at Cornell University, USA. His present interests include modelling and simulation of transport phenomena in microfluidics, especially with respect to lab on a chip applications.
	Ali Beskok, Old Dominion University, USA Presentation Title: An Electroosmotically Stirred Continuous Micro Mixer Prof. Ali Beskok received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkiye in 1988. He received an MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Indiana University Purdue University in Indianapolis in 1991, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 1994 and 1996, respectively. Dr. Beskok was a Visiting Scholar at Brown University, Center for Fluid Mechanics from 1994 to 1996, and a Post Doctoral Research Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Laboratory of Electronics from 1996-1998. He joined Texas A&M University Mechanical Engineering Department as an Assistant Professor in 1998, and became an Associate Professor in 2004. Currently, he is the Batten Professor of Computational Engineering, and a professor at Old Dominion University, Aerospace Engineering Department.
	Henrik Bruus, Technical University of Denmark Presentation Title: Ultrasound Handling of Liquids and Particles in Microfluidic Systems Henrik Bruus was born in 1963 in Copenhagen, Danmark. After obtaining his PhD degree in physics from the University of Copenhagen (1990), he worked as postdoctoral fellow at Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics (Copenhagen, 1990-92), at Yale University (New Haven, 1992-94), and at CNRS-CRTBT (Grenoble, 1994-96). In 1996 he became Associate Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. In 2001 he joined the faculty at the Department of Micro and Nanotechnology (MIC), Technical University of Denmark, as an Associate Professor and in 2005 he was promoted full professor and head of the theory section. He is the author of the textbook "Theoretical Microfluidics", Oxford University Press (2007).
	Min Chen, Tsinghua University, China Presentation Title: Micro/Nano-Scale Fluid Flow on Nanostructured Surfaces Dr. Min Chen is a Professor in the Engineering Mechanics Department at Tsinghua University, China. He received his Ph.D. from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, in 1997, and joined the Tsinghua University in 1998. He has been a Visiting Scholar (2002) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow (2003) at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. His areas of current interest are molecular dynamics studies of micro- nano-fluidics and phase change, thermophysical properties of supercooled liquid metals, and aircraft icing analysis. He has authored or co-authored more than 70 technical publications. He is also a recipient of the Natural Science Award (2006) from the Ministry of Education in China.
	Ping-Hei Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Presentation Title: Applications of Nanofluids in Microfluidic Devices Ping-Hei Chen received his Bachelor degree from National Taiwan University at 1980 and Ph. D. degree from U. of Minnesota at 1988. After the graduation, he joined Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at National Taiwan University as an associate professor. He was promoted as the full professor at 1996. He had served as the chairman of Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Taiwan University from 1998 to 2001. He serves as a board member of ASME Taiwan Chapter. His research areas include micro-thermal-fluid systems, Lab-on-a-chip for DNA detections, Nanofluid, MEMS fabrication technology, and cooling devices for electronic equipments, Biomedical devices, and RFID sensor network.
	Lisa DeLouise, University of Rochester, USA Presentation Title: Microfabrication of Bubble Cavities in PDMS for Cell Sorting and Storage Applications Dr. DeLouise received a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Pennsylvania State University ('84) and an Executive Masters degree in Product Development from the Rochester Institute of Technology ('01). Her professional career spans over 20 years of conducting academic and industrial R&D in surface science and chemical physics with a particular focus on interfacial reactions on material surfaces. At the University of Rochester Medical School she has established a cross-disciplinary research program focused on manipulating materials on the micro, nano and molecular level scales to develop novel biomedical devices for diagnostic, therapeutic and investigative purposes. In addition, to her work on designing novel microfluidic in PDMS for cell sorting and storage her laboratory also engineers porous silicon photonic bandgap structures, quantum dots and polymer based materials to investigate the barrier function of skin and to create Smart Bandage devices for real- time molecular monitoring and wound healing based on delivering phototherapeutic light and controlling cellular mechanotransduction.
	Stanislaw Drobniak, TU Czestochowa, UK Presentation Title: Numerical and Experimental Investigations of Momentum and Heat Transfer in Microchannels Stanislaw Drobniak (1948), MSc(1972) and PhD(1980) at TU Czestochowa (PL), habilitation (1988) at TU Poznan (PL), fluid mechanics professor at TU Czestochowa (1996). Post - doc (1981 - 1982) at Eng. Dept. Cambridge (UK), visiting professor at Cambridge and INPG Grenoble, member of the Mechanics Committee of Polish Academy of Sciences, member of ERCOFTAC Scientific Programme Committee and chairman of ERCOFTAC Polish Pilot Centre, research in coherent structures and transport phenomena in turbulent flows, CFD with special reference to LES turbulence simulation.
	David Erickson, Cornell University, USA Presentation Title: Optofluidics Dr. David Erickson is an Assistant Professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University where his research involves the development and fundamental understanding of micro-, nano- and optofluidic devices for biomolecular detection, single molecule analysis, directed assembly and autonomous microsystems. Prior to joining the faculty in 2005, Dr. Erickson was a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology (2004-2005) where his research involved the integration of nanoscale fluidics with optical structures. Dr. Erickson received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto in 2004 where his research involved the electrokinetically based techniques for single nucleotide polymorphism discrimination in polymer microfluidic systems, whole-chip numerical prototyping of lab-on-chip devices and fundamental microscale transport. Dr. Erickson has over 30 journal publications and is a member of the ASME, OSA and IEEE. In 2007, Dr. Erickson received the DARPA-MTO Young Faculty Award and the Robert '55 and Vanne '57 Cowie Excellence in Teaching Award.
	Heinz Herwig, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Germany Presentation Title: Flow in Channels with Rough Walls - Old and New Concepts Heinz Herwig studied Mechanical Engineering at the Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany, from 1970 to 1975. He earned his first PhD in 1981, for laminar flow separation and his second in 1985, for influence of variable properties on momentum and heat transfer. Dr. Herwig then was a Professor for Theroretical Fluid Mechanics at the Ruhr-University from 1987 through 1992. In 1994, he became a Full Professor for Technical Thermodynamics at TU in Chemnitz, Germany. Dr. Herwig currently serves at Full Professor and Head of the Institute for Thermo-Fluid Dynamics at TU Hamburg-Harburg in Germany. Dr. Herwig's research interests are in Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Thermodynamics and their interactions. He was also the author of eight books and authored/co-authored approximately 180 papers, mainly published in international journals, such as International Journal of Heat Mass Transfer, International Journal of Heat and Fluid Flow, and Journal of Fluid Mechanics, just to name a few.
	Yogesh Jaluria, Rutgers University, USA Presentation Title: Shear and Pressure Driven Flow and Thermal Transport in Microchannels Yogesh Jaluria is currently Board of Governors Professor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, and the Chairman of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He received his B.S. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. Professor Jaluria has contributed more than 400 technical articles, including over 160 in archival journals and 16 chapters in books. He has two patents in materials processing and is the author/co-author of six books. He is also editor or coeditor of thirteen conference proceedings, one book, and two special issues of archival journals. Professor Jaluria received the 2003 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the 2002 Max Jakob Memorial Award for eminent achievement in the field of heat transfer, from ASME and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE). In 2002, he was named Board of Governors Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University. He was selected as the 2000 Freeman Scholar by the Fluids Engineering Division, ASME. He received the 1999 Worcester Reed Warner Medal and the 1995 Heat Transfer Memorial Award for significant research contributions to the science of heat transfer, both from ASME. He also received the 1994 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Professor Jaluria is a Fellow of ASME and member of several other professional societies. He served as the Chair of the Heat Transfer Division of ASME during 2002-2003. He is presently the Editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer.
	Rohit Karnik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Presentation Title: Transport of Ions and Molecules in Nanofluidic Devices Rohit Karnik is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2006-2007, he was a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Langer at MIT. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2006 from the University of California, Berkeley, under the supervision of Dr. Arun Majumdar. His current research interests are in nanofluidics and microfluidics for nanoparticle synthesis and cell separation.
	Yasuo Koizumi, Kogakuin University, Japan Presentation Title: Flow Boiling Heat Transfer and Two-Phase Flow Dynamics in Thin-Rectangular Channels Dr. Koizumi received a PhD degree from the University of Tokyo in Mechanism of Dispersed Flow Heat Transfer in 1977. Also in 1977, he participated in the Thermal-Hydraulic Safety Research of Nuclear Reactor at the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute. From 1981 through 1983, Dr. Koizumi worked on the Loss-of-Fluid Test (LOFT) Project at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. He began working as a Professor of Heat Transfer with Phase Change, Two-Phase Flow, and Micro-Thermal-Hydraulics in the Heat Transfer Laboratory at Kogakuin University in 1989. Then, in 2003, Dr. Koizumi became the Director of Smart Machine and Micro-Bio System Research Center (SMBC).
	Michael B. Lawrence, American Heart Association, USA Presentation Title: Selectins Michael B. Lawrence received his doctorate in 1990 in Chemical Engineering from Rice University, Houston, Texas. He then postdoc’ed at Harvard Medical School in Pathology at the Center for Blood Research. Following postdoctoral studies, Dr. Lawrence spent 3 years in the pharmaceutical industry directing high-throughput screening efforts to discover small molecule inhibitors of leukocyte and cancer cell adhesion. In 1996 Dr. Lawrence joined the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA where he has continued work on the regulation of leukocyte adhesion during inflammation, with applications to receptor-targeted delivery of image contrast agents. Dr. Lawrence is currently an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Established Investigator of the American Heart Association. In 2005 he became a Fellow of AIMBE.
	Kathleen Lemkin-Kennard, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Presentation Title: Isolation of Hydrodynamic Contributions to Neutrophil Adhesion in Converging Microvessels Using a Microscale Flow System Kathleen Lamkin-Kennard is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Drexel University and was the recipient of a National Institutes of Health Kirchstein-NRSA post-doctoral fellowship award at the University of Rochester. Her main research interests include computational analysis of integrated physiological systems, microcirculatory flows and transport phenomena, biofluid mechanics, and biorobotics.
	Michal Lipson, Cornell University, USA Presentation Title: Photonics on a Silicon Chip Michal Lipson is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University, Ithaca NY. Prior to this appointment, she was a postdoctoral associate at the Department of Material Science and Engineering at MIT, following her Ph.D. in Physics at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on novel on-chip Nanophotonics devices. She holds several patents on novel micron-size photonic structures for light manipulation, and is the author of over 100 technical papers in journals in Physics and Optics. Professor Lipson's honors and awards include OSA Fellow, IEEE Senior Member, IBM Faculty Award, and NSF Early Career Award. More information on Professor Lipson can be found at nanophotonics.ece.cornell.edu.
	Abhijit Mukherjee, Michigan Technological University, USA Presentation Title: Contribution of Microlayer Evaporation During Flow Boiling Inside Microchannels Dr. Mukherjee joined Michigan Tech as Assistant Professor in fall 2006. His research interests are Interfacial Phenomena, Boiling, Microfluidics and Fuel Cells. Prior to joining MTU, he worked as Visiting Research Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology. Dr. Mukherjee holds a bachelor's degree in Power Plant Engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India. After completion of bachelor's degree, Dr. Mukherjee worked at Development Consultants Ltd., Calcutta, India, as Design Engineer of Thermal Power Plants. Thereafter, he joined Lurgi India, New Delhi, where he worked as Engineer, Mechanical Auxiliaries and Offsites. Dr. Mukherjee earned a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles. He is the recipient of the 2006 ASME Journal of Heat Transfer best paper award along with Prof. V. K. Dhir at UCLA.
	Yoav Peles, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Presentation Title: Enhancement of Flow Boiling at the Micro Scale — A Review Dr. Yoav Peles has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) since 2002. His main research endeavor concerns single-phase and flow boiling heat transfer, and cavitation in micro domains. Professor Peles received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in January 2000. Following he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to work on the micro engine project. Professor Peles is the recipient of the 2005 ONR Young Investigator Award and the 2007 DARPA/MTO Young Faculty Award.
	Jeffery Perry and Satish Kandlikar, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Presentation Title: Fouling and Its Mitigation in Silicon Microdevices Jeffrey Perry did his graduate work at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY. He has an interdisciplinary background. His Masters work was in Microelectronic Engineering where his thesis topic dealt with the effect of deposition pressure on sputtered tantalum film stress with applications to copper CMP (Chemical Mechanical Planarization). Subsequently, his doctoral work focused on particulate fouling within silicon microchannels used for IC chip cooling. He now works for Spansion, a semiconductor company in Sunnyvale, CA as a senior process development engineer in their advanced processing technology group.
	Satish Kandlikar is a Gleason Professor of Mechanical Engineering at RIT. His area of research includes microchannels in single-phase and two-phase applications, flow boiling and water management in fuel cells.
	Dimos Poulikakos, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Presentation Title: Driving Liquids and Solid Particles Through Very Small Ducts Ranging From Molecular Size to Human Hair in Diameters Professor Dimos Poulikakos holds the Chair of Thermodynamics at ETH Zurich, where he directs the Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies in the Institute of Energy Technology and was the Vice President of Research of ETH Zurich in the period 2005-2007. From October 1999 to September 2001 he was also the Head of the Institute of Energy Technology. From October 2001 to September 2003 he was associate head of research of the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH (2 year appointment). He was a Member of the Research Commission of ETH (2001-2005) and the Vice Chair and then Chair of the Leonard Euler Center in Switzerland, the Swiss Branch of ERCOFTAC (2002-2005). He was also a member of the National Council of Science and Technology of Greece. His current research is in the area of interfacial transport phenomena, heat transfer and thermodynamics in emerging technologies, focusing on transport phenomena and energy conversion including the physics at micro- and nanoscales, surface driven energy conversion (fuel cells) and on medical applications with special emphasis on the human body. Professor Poulikakos has supervised to completion 40 Doctoral dissertations to date. He has published ca. 200 research articles in top peer reviewed journals as well as numerous (over 100) articles in reviewed proceedings of professional conferences and a graduate level textbook on Conduction Heat Transfer (Prentice Hall, 1994). He has also co-authored a special volume of Advances in Heat Transfer (1996), dedicated to transport phenomena in materials processing. Among the awards he has received for his contributions are the White House/NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985, the Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal in 1986, the Society of Automotive Engineers Ralph R. Teetor Award in 1986, the University of Illinois Scholar Award in 1986 and the Reviewer of the Year Award for the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer in 1995. He is the recipient of the 2000 James Harry Potter Gold Medal of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers "for his outstanding contributions to thermodynamics and its applications in emerging technologies". He was a Russell S. Springer Professor of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of California at Berkeley (visiting appointment 2002/2003) and the Hawkins Memorial Lecturer of Purdue University in 2004. He received the Heat Transfer Memorial Award for Science in 2003, from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, "for outstanding and original research contributions to solidification, bio-fluid mechanics, porous structures and other areas of heat transfer science, and investigations into their application to new and emerging technologies." He received the Dr.h.c of the National Technical University of Athens in 2006. Professor Poulikakos has been a frequent keynote speaker in many conferences worldwide. He is the Editor in Chief of the Journal the Experimental Heat Transfer, and a member of the board of Editors of the Journal of Microscale Thermophysical Engineering, the Journal of Porous Media, the International Journal of Thermal Sciences and the Intl. Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer. He was also an Editor of the Journal ACTA Mechanica since 2000-2005. He is the European Editor of the Intl. Journal of Transport Phenomena. He has served as an associate editor of the ASME Journal of Heat Transfer 1999-2002. He is a Fellow of ASME.
	Ravi Prashar, Intel, USA Presentation Title: Cooling of Electronic Chips Using Microchannel and Micro-Pin Fin Heat Exchangers Ravi is the technology development manager of the "Thermal and Fluids Core Competency group" at Intel. His group is responsible for research and development of advanced cooling technologies for Intel microprocessors and physics-based electronic package process development. Ravi got a B.Tech. from IIT, Delhi in 1995 and Ph.D. in Mechanical Eng. from Arizona State University (ASU) in 1999. He is also an adjunct professor at ASU. Ravi has published 50 archival journal papers and two book chapters in edited volumes. He currently holds 22 patents and 26 pending patents in the area of thermoelectrics, thermal interface materials, microchannels, heat pipes and nanotechnology. Ravi is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging. He was the recipient of "Outstanding Young Engineer Award," from IEEE CPMT society in 2006.
	Weilin Qu, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Presentation Title: Thermal and Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Single-Phase Flow and Flow Boiling in a Staggered Micro-Pin-Fin Array Weilin Qu received his B.E. degree in 1994 and M.S. degree in 1997, both from Tsinghua University, China, and his Ph.D. degree in 2004 from Purdue University, USA. His doctoral research involved experimental study, theoretical modeling, and numerical analysis of the various transport phenomena associated with single-phase liquid flow and forced convective boiling in micro-channels. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa as an assistant professor in 2004. His work has been focused on single-phase liquid flow and flow boiling in micro-scale heat transfer enhancement structures, high-heat-flux thermal management using water and FC-72 cooled micro-channel heat sinks, water and thermal management in proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells.
	Juan G. Santiago, Stanford University, USA Presentation Title: Novel On-Chip Isotachophoresis Assays Prof. Juan G. Santiago has Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC); where he received five fellowships as a doctoral candidate. He was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the Aerospace Corporation ('95 - '97), where his work included the development of flow diagnostics for micronozzles. Prof. Santiago received a Ford Foundation Postodoctoral Fellowship ('97), and worked as a Research Scientist at UIUC's Beckman Institute ('97 - '98). Santiago is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stanford. He specializes in microscale transport phenomena, electrokinetics, and microfluidic system design. His research includes the optimization and development of novel microsystems for pumping liquids, on-chip electrophoresis, sample concentration methods, and miniature fuel cells. The applications of this work include microfabricated bioanalytical systems for genetic analysis, drug discovery, bioweapon detection, drug delivery, and power generation. He has received a Frederick Emmons Terman Fellowship ('98-'01); won the National Inventor's Hall of Fame Collegiate Inventors Competition ('01); was awarded the Outstanding Achievement in Academia Award by the GEM Foundation ('06); and was awarded a National Science Foundation PECASE Award ('03-'08). He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, co-founder of Cooligy Inc., co-inventor of micron-resolution particle image velocimetry, and director of the Stanford Microfluidics Laboratory. Santiago has given 12 keynote and named lectures and over 100 additional invited lectures. He and his students have been awarded nine best paper and best poster awards. Since 1998, he has graduated 13 PhD students, advised 10 postdoctoral researchers, authored and co-authored 75 archival publications, authored and co-authored 150 conference papers, and been awarded 12 patents.
	Steffen Schirrmeister, Chief Engineer, Research & Development Division, Uhde GmbH, Germany Presentation Title: Microstructured Reactors for Gas Phase Reactions Steffen Schirrmeister studied chemical process engineering at the D.Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia in Moscow, and earned his doctorate in 1991 at the Chair for Technical Cybernetics. His professional career began in 1992 at Krupp Koppers GmbH in Essen, where his work included development of an expert system for process control in the coal carbonizing practice. He has been an employee in the Research & Development/Technology Management unit of Uhde GmbH since 1997, and is primarily concerned with process simulation and optimization, membrane technology, microprocessing technology, and microreaction technology. From 2001 to 2005 Schirrmeister managed Uhde’s side of the DEMiS® project. He became the project leader of microreaction technology in 2006.
	Stephen Scholl, University of Braunschweig, Germany Presentation Title: From Batch to Continuous Production Through Micro Process Technology: Chances and Challenges Dr. Scholl studied Chemical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich from 1979 through 1985. He then received a Dr.-Ing. degree in Chemical Engineering at TU Munich on "Sorption kinetics of physically adsorbed species in solid adsorbents" in 1991. Dr. Scholl has held many different positions over the years, such as Process Engineer in distillation, heat exchange and process optimization, internal consultant for logistics planning, and senior research manager for extraction, absorption and physical properties. Presently he is a Professor for Chemical and Thermal Process Engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig. Dr. Scholl's areas of special interest are heat and mass transfer, fouling, micro-structured surfaces, down-stream processing in biotechnological productions and process intensification, reactive separations, micro process technology.
	Peter Stephan, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Presentation Title: Nucleate Pool Boiling on Tubes with Subsurface Mini- and Microchannels Peter Stephan is Professor at the Technische Universität Darmstadt. He is Dean of the Mechanical Engineering Faculty and Head of the Institute for Technical Thermodynamics. He studied mechanical engineering and energy technology at the Technische Universität München. From 1989 to 1992 he was a Marie-Curie Research Fellow at the EC Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, and received his PhD in 1992 at the University of Stuttgart. Until 1997 he was working as a senior process engineer and R&D manager in the Daimler-Benz group. Since then he is at Darmstadt University of Technology. His main fields of research are boiling heat transfer, microscale heat and mass transfer, interfacial phenomena, heat pipe technology, drying and freezing processes. Specific interests lie in multiscale approaches and the combination of numerical and experimental studies. He received the IIR Sadi Carnot Prize in 1995 and the SFT Prize for Excellence in Heat Transfer Research in 2002. He is president of the VDI Heat and Mass Transfer Committee, Editor in Chief of the VDI Heat Atlas, member of several international associations, and coordinator of the newly founded german Excellence-Cluster “Smart Interfaces – Understanding and Designing Fluid Boundaries."
	Thomas Trabold, General Motors, USA Presentation Title: Two-Phase Flow Considerations in PEM Fuel Cell Design and Operation Thomas A. Trabold is an Engineering Supervisor at the General Motors Fuel Cell Research Laboratory in Honeoye Falls, New York. Dr. Trabold completed his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Clarkson University in 1989. He has conducted research in the areas of free jet dynamics, impingement heat transfer and evaporation, two-phase flow in ducts and tube bundles, and coating and drying processes. At GM, Dr. Trabold is currently leading the research effort to understand the fundamentals of water management within polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells, including two-phase transport through minichannels and porous media.
	Ichiro Ueno, Tokyo University of Science, Japan Presentation Title: Detection of Advancing Edge and Existing Length of Precursor Film Ahead Macroscopic Contact Line of Droplet Spreading on Solid Substrate Ichiro Ueno received the degrees of Bachelor and Master of Engineering (Mech. Eng.) from The University of Tokyo in 1994 and 1996, respectively. Received Ph. D., Mar. 1999 from The University of Tokyo for a thesis entitled 'Thermal-Fluid Phenomena Induced by Nanosecond-Pulsed Laser Heating of Materials in Water.' Served as a research associate at Dept. Mechanical Engineering, Fac. Science & Technology, Tokyo University of Science (Apr. 1999 to Mar. 2004). Have been served as an assistant professor directing 'Interfacial Thermo-Fluid Dynamics Lab' at the same affiliation since Apr. 2004. Awarded The Zel'dovich medal 2006 from the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) and The Russian Academy of Sciences. His current research interests are wettability, contact line dynamics, surface-tension-driven convective phenomena, particle dynamics and pattern formation, non-linear gas/vapor bubble oscillation, crystal growth, environmental control/fluid handling under microgravity condition and so on.
	Jinliang Xu, Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion - Chinese Academy of Science, China Presentation Title: Bubble Dynamics and Phase Change Heat Transfer in Microsystems Prof. Jinliang Xu received his Ph.D in Power and Energy Engineering from Xian Jiaotong University in 1995. He joined Tsinghua University as a post-doctor from 1995 to 1997. He worked in Florida International University (USA), University of Notre Dame (USA), and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) from 1998 to 2001. He has been a Professor in Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Science since 2002. He setup the micro energy system laboratory and has been the leader of the laboratory. His current research interests include the multiscale modeling of complex flows, flow and heat transfer in microscale, micro energy system, and microfluidics. He has authored over 30 articles in refereed scientific journals. He is a referee for 12 journals such as Int. J. of Heat and Mass Transfer, Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, AIAA J. of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, etc.