Keynote speakers

Prof. (Emeritus) John R. Thome
JJ Cooling Innovation Sàrl
Lausanne
Switzerland

 Industrialization of Micro-Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer Research: Where Are We?

John R. Thome is Technical Director of JJ Cooling Innovation Sàrl in Lausanne, Switzerland, which develops new micro-two-phase cooling technologies for: power electronics, automotive, datacenters, edge computing, aerospace, 5G, batteries, food and beverage industries. These comprise Passive cooling (gravity/thermosyphons and self-excited/PHPs) and Active cooling (pumped and compressor driven systems), see (https://www.jjcooling.com).  
He is Professor Emeritus of Heat Transfer at the EPFL in Lausanne (1998-2018) where he directed the LTCM lab (https://archiveweb.epfl.ch/ltcm.epfl.ch). He is the author of five books and editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Two-Phase Heat Transfer and Flow (16 volumes). He chairs the Virtual International Research Institute of Two-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer (http://2phaseflow.org) that has some 30 participating members. He has written over 250 journal papers with 30’000+ citations. He received the 2017 Nusselt-Reynolds Prize, the 2019 IEEE ITHERM Award, the 2019 ASME InterPack Medal and the 2010 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, among others.

Prof. Joseph Katz
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering
USA 

Multiphase Flow Phenomena Associated with the Breakup, emulsification, and Transport of Crude Oil by Surface Waves and Subsurface Plumes

Joseph Katz received his B.S. degree from Tel Aviv University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology, all in mechanical engineering. He is the William F. Ward Sr. Distinguished Professor of Engineering, and the director and co-founder of the Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics at Johns Hopkins University. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, as well as a Fellow of the American Physical Society, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and American Society of Thermal and Fluids Engineering. He has served as the Editor of the Journal of Fluids Engineering, and as the Chair of the board of journal Editors of ASME. His research extends over a wide range of fields, with a common theme involving experimental fluid mechanics, and development of optical and ultrasonic diagnostics techniques for laboratory and field applications. His group has studied laboratory and oceanic boundary layers, flows in turbomachines, flow-structure interactions, biomedical flows, swimming behavior of marine plankton in the laboratory and in the ocean, as well as cavitation, bubble, and droplet dynamics, the latter focusing on interfacial phenomena associated with oil spills.

Prof. Asano Hitoshi
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Kobe University
Japan

Effect of Boiling Bubbles on Gas-Liquid Interfacial Structure

Hitoshi Asano is a professor of Department Mechanical Engineering of Kobe University, Japan. He graduated from Kobe University in 1990. He started research on two-phase flow dynamics in Kobe University after 3.5 years working in Daikin Industries. He obtained degree of Dr. Eng. from Kobe University in 2000, and was promoted to associate professor in 2001. From 2001 to 2002 he visited Stuttgart University as a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt foundation. His interest is focused on thermo-fluid dynamics with evaporation and condensation in compact heat exchangers for HVAC systems and in two-phase flow cooling systems for space structures. He is Fellow of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, and a member of Scientific Council of International Center for Heat and Mass Transfer.