Luquan Ren, Jilin University, China

Luquan Ren is a Distinguished Professor at Jilin University and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He also is the Director of the Academic Board of Key Laboratory of Bionic Engineering, Ministry of Education (China), the Executive Vice President of International Society of Bionic Engineering (ISBE), the Vice President of the Asia Association for Agricultural Engineering (AAAE), the National Secretary for China of the International Society for Terrain-Vehicle Systems (ISTVS). His research interests include the basic theory and technology of bionic science and engineering, and the research and development of bionic equipment.

Chang-Jin "CJ" Kim, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA

CJ Kim is a Distinguished Professor and the inaugural Volgenau Chair in Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research interests include microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), a full spectrum of micromachining technologies, surface-tension-based actuation, electrowetting-on-dielectric (EWOD) digital microfluidics, and superhydrophobic drag reduction.

Zuankai Wang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Zuankai Wang is a Chair Professor of Nature-Inspired Engineering and Associate Vice President (Research and Innovation) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a founding member of Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of International Society of Bionic Engineering (ISBE). His research interests lie in droplet & bubble, wetting and nature-inspired engineering.

Wilhelm Barthlott, University of Bonn, Germany

Wilhelm Barthlott is Professor Emeritus (Chair of Botany) and former director of the Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants at the University of Bonn. His research interests include biodiversity of plants, scanning electron microscopy, biological superhydrophobic surfaces and bionics. This led to the discovery of the self-cleaning mechanism which he termed “Lotus Effect” in 1992 followed by first technical applications in 1996. He is a member of the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina and several other institutions.

Hans-Jürgen Butt, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany

Hans-Jürgen Butt is a Professor and the Director of the Department of Physics at Interfaces at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. He is a Member of Europe Academy of Science. His research interests include wetting and super liquid-repellency, structure and dynamics at liquid interfaces, surface forces, scanning probe microscopies, X-ray analysis of interfaces, polymer and water in confined space, colloids and granular matter, photoresponsive materials.

Manoj K. Chaudhury, Lehigh University, USA

Manoj K. Chaudhury is the Franklin J. Howes Jr. Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. He also holds a secondary appointment in the department of Materials Science and Engineering at Lehigh University. Prior to Joining Lehigh University, he was employed at Dow Corning Corporation (now Dow Chemical) for more than ten years. His research interests are in surface phenomena, emulsions, adhesion, friction and droplet-based microfluidics. 

Vincent Craig, Australian National University, Australia

Vince Craig is a member of the Department of Material Physics and a former Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Australian National University in the Research School of Physics. He was educated at the ANU before postdoctoral positions at UC Davis, California and the University of Newcastle, NSW. He was awarded an ARC Postdoctoral fellowship (1998-2001), an ARC Research Fellowship (2001-2006) and an ARC Future Fellowship (2008-2013). His research interests include nanobubbles at surfaces and in bulk, the direct measurement of surface forces both quasistatic and dynamic, interfacial adsorption of surfactants and polymers, specific ion effects in aqueous and non-aqueous solutions and bubble coalescence in electrolyte solutions.

Huiling Duan, Peking University, China

Huiling Duan is a Chair Professor and Dean of College of Engineering at Peking University. Her research interests lie in the interface mechanics of complex flows and soft matter, including stability of liquid-gas interface on underwater superhydrophobic surface, flow control and drag reduction mediated by slip boundary, dynamic evolution of bubble and droplet, fluid-structure interaction, and implications of liquid-applied soft material printing.

Lei Jiang, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Lei Jiang is a Professor at Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beihang University, and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include bio-inspired, smart, multi-scale interfacial materials with superwettability, quantum-confined superfluid in high-efficiency energy conversion, information transmission and bio-synthesis.

Aiqun Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Aiqun Liu (A. Q. Liu) received his PhD degree from National University of Singapore (NUS) and is a Professor in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Currently, he is the Director at the Quantum Science and Engineering (QSec) at NTU, His research interests include quantum computers and quantum communication; photonic fabrication and devices; and optofluidics. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal papers and also received multiple prestigious awards and honours including Singapore Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award. He was elevated to Singapore Engineering Academic Fellow, SPIE Fellow, OSA Fellow and RCS Fellow.

Glen McHale, University of Edinburgh, UK

Glen McHale is Professor of Interfacial Science and Engineering at The University of Edinburgh. His research interests focus on solid-liquid interfacial interactions and include nature and bio-inspired surface engineering, wetting and dewetting of surfaces, superhydrophobic, superwetting and superslippery surfaces, liquid-infused surfaces, and electrowetting and dielectrowetting.

Gareth H. McKinley FRS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Gareth H. McKinley is the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation at MIT, a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the Royal Society. His research interests include rheology of complex fluids, sprays, jetting and atomization, development of new rheometric techniques, design of microrheometric devices, esp. for complex fluids as well as polymeric and superhydrophobic drag reduction.

Frieder Mugele, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Frieder Mugele is a Professor in the Department of Science and Technology at University of Twente. His interests include electrowetting, wetting of complex surfaces, dynamic wetting, drop dynamics, two-phase flow microfluidics, AFM spectroscopy in fluids, confined liquids, nanofluidics, optofluidics, colloids, (micro-)rheology. Application areas include inkjet printing, immersion lithography, lab-on-a-chip systems – and in particular enhanced oil recovery.

Dimos Poulikakos, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Dimos Poulikakos holds the Chair of Thermodynamics in the Mechanical and Process Engineering Department at ETH Zurich, where he founded and directs the Laboratory of Thermodynamics in Emerging Technologies. His research is in the area of interfacial and multiphase transport phenomena, thermodynamics and related rational materials nanoengineering and nanofabrication. Examples of application areas are the direct printing of complex liquids and colloids with nanoscale to molecular feature size and resolution, the science-based design of surfaces with extreme performance for various functionalities, the bio-inspired 3D integrated powering and cooling of electronics, the development of facile methods based on nanophotonics for sunlight management and the development of nanofluidic technologies and surface textures for cell-level biological applications.

David Quéré, ESPCI-Paris & École polytechnique, France

David Quéré is a Senior Researcher at CNRS and a Professor at École polytechnique, in Paris. His research interests in Soft Matter physics include interfacial hydrodynamics (drops, films, bubbles, coating), aerodynamics, morphogenesis and biomimetics.

Kathleen J. Stebe, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Kathleen J. Stebe is the Richer and Elizabeth Goodwin Professor of Engineering and Applied Science in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Pennsylvania. She is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering. Her research interests include non-equilibrium interfaces, with applications ranging from microfluidics to nanotechnology. One aspect of her research program focuses on interfaces between fluids and how surfactants can be used to influence interfacial flows. Other aspects address tailoring of solid-liquid interfaces with applications ranging from patterned electrodeposition to capillary-driven assembly and ordering of nanomaterials.

Liqiu “Rick” Wang, University of Hong Kong, China

Liqiu Wang is a Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Biomedical Engineering Programme at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include microfluidic droplets, microfluidics-enabled soft manufacture, and nature-inspired and microfluidics-enabled technology.

David A. Weitz, Harvard University, USA

David A. Weitz is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University. He is a Member of National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering, USA. He is the Director of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and Co-Director of the BASF Advanced Research Initiative. He is also a Member of Kavli Institute for Bionano Science & Technology. His research interests are in the physics of soft condensed matter, materials which are easily deformed by external stresses, electric, magnetic or gravitational fields, or even by thermal fluctuations. 

Shu Yang, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Shu Yang is a Joseph Bordogna Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and Chair of the Department of Materials Science & Engineering at University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests lie in synthesis, fabrication, and assembly of soft matter; dynamic tuning of their sizes, shapes and assembled structures at surface and interfaces, and use geometry to create highly flexible, super-conformable, and shape changing materials for potential applications, including self-cleaning coatings, structural colors, adhesives, smart windows, sensors, and actuators.

Julia Yeomans, University of Oxford, UK

Julia Yeomans FRS is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford and Pauline Chan Fellow at St Hilda’s College. She applies techniques from theoretical and computational physics to problems in soft condensed matter and biophysics. Her current research interests include active matter and mechanobiology.  

Yanlei Yu, Fudan University, China

Yanlei Yu is a full Professor in the Department of Materials Science at Fudan University. Her research interests are in photoresponsive materials and bioinspired interfaces for intelligent microfludics, soft actuators/robotics, and photonic crystals.

Alidad Amirfazli, York University, Canada

Alidad Amirfazli is a Professor and Chair at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, York University. He has served at the Board of Examiners for Professional Engineering body in Alberta (APEGA), and has been a consultant to many companies (local and multinational). He has served on various funding agencies' review boards. His research interests include surface engineering and understanding droplet surface interactions to develop platform technologies for diverse areas of applications, e.g. water management in fuel cells, anti-icing systems for wind turbine/aircrafts printing technology, application of pesticides, spray cooling, additive manufacturing and related instrumentation. He was inducted to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars in 2014, as well as being a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada.

James C. Bird, Boston University, USA

James C. Bird is an Associate Professor at Boston University. His research interests focus on the fluid dynamics of drops and bubbles with applications ranging from climate to the forensics.

Chang-Hwan Choi, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

Chang-Hwan Choi is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Stevens Institute of Technology. His broad research interests include nanofabrication, surface patterning, micro/nano/opto-fluidics, and interfacial phenomena.

Michael Dickey, North Carolina State University, USA

Michael Dickey received a BS in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology (1999) and a PhD from the University of Texas (2006) under the guidance of Professor Grant Willson. From 2006-2008 he was a post-doctoral fellow in the lab of Professor George Whitesides at Harvard University. He is currently the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Professor in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at NC State University. He completed a sabbatical at Microsoft in 2016.  Michael’s research interests include soft matter (liquid metals, gels, polymers) for soft and stretchable devices (electronics, energy harvesters, textiles, and soft robotics).

Anne Juel, The University of Manchester, UK

Anne Juel is a Professor of Fluid Dynamics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester (UK) where she has led the Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics, an interdisciplinary research centre in fluids and soft matter allying quantitative experimental investigations with cutting edge mathematical and computational modelling since 2014. She was elected to a Fellowship of the American Physical Society in 2019. Her current research interests encompass thin-film flows and instabilities, fluid-structure interaction, wetting, yield phenomena and biomimetic microfluidic models, encompassing both curiosity-driven and industrially-relevant topics.

Ho-Young Kim, Seoul National University, Korea

Ho-Young Kim is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University. He received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering (1999) from MIT. His research interests include microscale interfacial flows, biological fluid dynamics, mechanics of soft matter, and biomimetics. He is an APS Fellow.

Tom N. Krupenkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Tom N. Krupenkin is an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include nanotechnology; micro and nano-fluidics; renewable energy.

Pavel Levkin, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Pavel Levkin is head of the Multifunctional Materials Systems research group at the Institute of Biological and Chemical Systems (IBCS-FMS) and Institute of Organic Chemistry (IOC) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. He is the cofounder of ScreenFect GmbH and Aquarray GmbH. His research focuses on the development of functional and responsive materials, and surfaces for biomedical and biotechnological applications.

Hyuneui Lim, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, Korea

Hyuneui Lim is a director of Nano-Convergence Manufacturing Systems Research Division, Korea Institute of Machinery & Material (KIMM) and a professor of Department of Nanomechtronics, University of Science & Technology (UST). Her research interests include surface engineering, a full spectrum of nature-inspired functional surfaces, wearable sensor and actuator, eco-friendly nanofabrication, soft lithography and 3D printing.

Huan Liu, Beihang University, China

Huan Liu is a full Professor in the Faulty of School of Chemistry at Beihang University (BUAA) in China. Her current research interests are in liquid transfer, micro-patterning and its applications in optoelectronic thin-film devices.

Yao Lu, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Yao Lu is a Lecturer in Chemistry at Queen Mary University of London. He obtained his PhD in Materials Science and Chemistry from UCL Chemistry. He is interested in nature inspired functional materials such as superhydrophobic coatings, omniphobic surfaces and bio-inspired sensors and actuators. His research also involves developing new sustainable techniques in water remediation and design of durable and degradable functional composite materials.

Omar Matar, Imperial College London, UK

Omar Matar is a Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, UK. He is a Professor of Fluid Mechanics at Imperial College London, and the Head of Department of Chemical Engineering. His research interests include Interfacial fluid mechanics; Multiphase flows & heat transfer; Computational fluid dynamics; Machine learning & multi-fidelity methods; 2D materials: liquid-based exfoliation, scale-out, online monitoring; Immersive technologies (AR, VR).

Constantine Megaridis, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Constantine Megaridis is a Professor and the Director of Micro/Nanoscale Fluid Transport Laboratory at University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interests include nanotechnology; nanomaterials; liquid repellent coatings; materials engineering; microfluidics; lab on a chip.

Changyhun Pang, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

Changhyun Pang is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University. His research interests are in bioinspired multiscale materials and interfaces for dry/wet adhesion, controllable wettability, bioelectronics, and intelligent soft actuating robotics.

Robin Ras, Aalto University, Finland

Robin Ras is a Professor at Aalto University and head of the Department of Applied Physics. His interests involve droplets and surfaces, including the engineering of materials for wetting applications and the development of characterization techniques.

Yanlin Song, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Yanlin Song is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at Institute of Chemistry, Chinese academy of Sciences. His research interests include nanomaterials, photonic crystals, printed electrics, and green-printing technology.

Shoji Takeuchi, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Shoji Takeuchi is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) at The University of Tokyo. His research interests include design and fabrication of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and bio hybrid systems.

Sindy K.Y. Tang, Stanford University, USA

Prof. Sindy K.Y. Tang is the Kenneth and Barbara Oshman Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and by courtesy of Radiology (Precision Health and Integrated Diagnostics) at Stanford University. Her research laboratory designs and develops micro and nanoscale devices that enable precise manipulation, measurement, and recapitulation of biological systems, in order to understand the blueprint of biological systems and address gaps in precision medicine for a future with better health and environmental sustainability.

Tadd Truscott, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia

Tadd Truscott is an Associate Professor in the Faulty of Mechanical Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). His current research interests are in fluid dynamics, novel imaging and experimental methods.

Kripa K. Varanasi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Kripa K. Varanasi is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT. The focus of his work is in understanding the physico-chemical phenomena at interfaces and developing novel materials, devices, and products that can dramatically enhance performance in energy, water, agriculture, transportation, medical, and consumer devices. 

Tak-Sing Wong, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Tak-Sing Wong is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering and the inaugural Wormley Family Early Career Professor in Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. His research interests include surface and interfacial engineering, micro- and nanomanufacturing, and bio-inspired materials design with applications in health, energy, water, and environmental sustainability.

Chengchun Zhang, Jilin University, China

Chengchun Zhang is a Professor of Bionic Science and Engineering at Jilin University, and the Director of National-Local Joint Engineering Laboratory of Bionic Engineering. His research interests include multiphase and complex flow related to bionics, bionic aircraft and bionic power system, and bio-inspired renewable energy equipment.

Yapu Zhao, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Yapu Zhao is a Professor at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include physical mechanics, non-linear mechanics, surface and inter-surface mechanics.

James Sullivan, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

James Sullivan obtained his BSc. [Hons] in Chemistry from the University of Warwick in 1997. Following time spent as a research scientist in Oxford, he has - since 2000 - worked in Engineering & Technology journals publishing, the past 15 of those years at Wiley.

Guangchen Xu, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Guangchen Xu obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. (Hons) from the Beijing University of Technology. He spent a year at Michigan State University as a visiting scholar. Before joining the Wiley team in Beijing in 2011, he was an Assistant Professor at Beijing University of Technology.

Hanyi Xie, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Hanyi Xie obtained her BSc at Shandong University, followed by her PhD in a joint program at Peking University and the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology. She joined Wiley in 2021.