Biographies

David Brutin has been an associate professor at Aix-Marseille University since 2005. He obtained his PhD in the field of mechanical engineering in 2003 at the University of Provence. He got his master degree in mechanical engineering in 2000. David is now working on fluid mechanics, soft matter, energetic, and phase change heat transfer with pure and complex fluids (refrigerants, blood, nanofluids…). His applications include the fields of space, aeronautics, medical diagnosis, forensic science, and the printing industry… David has published over 40 research articles in recognized journals. In 2013, he co-organized the first International Workshop on Wetting and Evaporation: Droplets of Pure and Complex Fluids.

This work has been carried out in the framework of the Labex MEC (ANR-10-LABX-0092) and of the A*MIDEX project (ANR-11-IDEX-0001-02), funded by the Investissements d’Avenir French Government program managed by the French National Research Agency (ANR). The work were also funded by the French Space Agency (CNES), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Carnot Star Institute.

Daniel Bonn is director of the Institute of Physics of the University of Amsterdam, where over 200 researchers work. He is also group leader of the “Soft Matter Group”, which totals about 30 people, including 4 permanent scientific staff. He is currently supervisor of 15 doctoral students and in his career accompanied to date 26 successful PhD students. Before coming to Amsterdam recently, he was a CNRS research director at the Laboratoire de Physique Statistique of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he led the “complex fluids” group. He published more than 200 papers on wetting phenomena, complex fluids, hydrodynamics, mechanics and the statistical mechanics of glasses of which several in Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters; he was invited more than 40 times as a speaker at international conferences In the past five years.

Edward Bormashenko is a professor of physics and materials science and is the head of the Laboratory of Polymers in Ariel University in Israel. His research interests include wetting phenomena, surface science, superhydrophobicity, wetting transitions, processes of self-assembly, polymer science, soft matter physics, and interaction of plasma with organic materials. He is the author of more than 140 publications in these fields, including the monograph Wetting of Real Surfaces. In the last decade, he has devoted his research to interfaces with prescribed wettability, including nonwetted surfaces and nonstick droplets.

Frieder Mugele is a full professor of physics of complex fluids at the University of Twente. He is currently heading a group of approximately 25 researchers who are studying the fundamental and applied aspects of fluids at interfaces, on scales ranging from molecular dimensions to millimeter. Mugele’s research interests include electrowetting, wetting of complex surfaces, dynamic wetting, drop dynamics, two-phase flow microfluidics, AFM spectroscopy in fluids, confined liquids, nanofluidics, optofluidics, and colloids, (micro)rheology. His application areas include oil recovery, inkjet printing, immersion lithography, and lab-on-a-chip systems. Andrea Cavalli has been a postdoctorate in PCF since 2013. His core interests are wetting on textured surfaces, electrowetting, and numerical simulations of two-phase flows, with applications to microfluidics and display technology.

With a degree in Chemical Engineering and a PhD in Process and Product Engineering from Université de Lorraine (France), Odile Carrier has been working on emulsification in microfluidic systems and stabilisation of interfaces implying complex fluids, surfactants and crystallization processes. Further developing her interest for interfacial sciences and physical-chemistry, she is currently working on wetting phenomena at the Institute of Physics in the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands). She took part in several international and/or applied projects for cosmetics, petroleum industry and forensic science.

Pierre Colinet is a Senior Research Associate of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) and a Professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, where he heads the Fluid Physics Research Unit in the TIPs (Transfers, Interfaces, and Processes) laboratory. He currently teaches physical chemistry and modeling of multiphase systems, and his main research interests are in capillarity, wetting, surface-tension-driven flows, phase change (e.g., evaporation and boiling), heat/mass transfer, thin films and droplets, pattern formation, nonlinear dynamics, and micro- and nanofluidics. The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support of ESA & BELSPO (PRODEX projects), Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique—FNRS (of which PC is a Senior Research Associate) and BELSPO (IAP 7/38μ-MAST project). This research was also carried out under COST Action MP1106’s umbrella.

Stéphane Dorbolo obtained his PhD in 2000 at the University of Liège under the supervision of Dr. M. Ausloos in the field of thermal properties of superconductors. He joined N. Vandewalle’s group (GRASP) at the University of Liège in 2003. He oriented his research in the field of granular material and particularly the Branly’s effect. He sojourned in several places, including the University of Cambridge, Clark University, Collège de France, ENS-Lyon, and Paris 7 for projects in the fields of granular materials, antibubbles, and droplets. Dorbolo became an FNRS research associate in 2006.

Fei Duan is an associate professor in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His research areas include droplet evaporation, thermofluids, and thermal management. Currently, Guiping Zhu is a research fellow, and Tao Wei is a PhD student in Duan’s group at Nanyang Technological University.

David Fairhurst studied physics at Imperial College, London, including a year at Ecole Supériere de Physiques et Chimie Industrielles in Paris, where he studied motion in asymmetric profiles with Professor Armand Ajdari. He acquired his PhD in Edinburgh, studying phase behavior of colloidal systems and the importance of variations in particle size with Professors Wilson Poon and Peter Pusey. After working for Crocodile Clips, an educational software company, he spent 3 months in Professor Paul Callaghan’s NMR lab in the University of Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand. Fairhurst returned to the University of Edinburgh for a postdoctorate in nonequilibrium soft matter before taking up his current position at Nottingham Trent University. His research interests include simple and complex fluids, including polymers; surfactants and colloids; the dynamic behavior of droplets, including evaporation; and the stability and dynamics of bubbles and foams.

Tatiana Gambaryan-Roisman is a professor (apl. Prof.) and a research group leader at the Institute for Technical Thermodynamics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, in Germany. In 1998, she earned a DSc degree in mechanical engineering from Technion, Haifa, Israel. In 2003, Gambaryan-Roisman founded an Emmy Noether-Junior Research Group, “Evaporation of Thin Films on Structured Surfaces,” at TU Darmstadt. In 2007, she founded with colleagues a new interdisciplinary research center, the Center of Smart Interfaces. Since January 2014, she has been coordinating an EU Marie Curie Initial Training Network, “Complex Wetting Phenomena” (CoWet). Her research interests include heat and mass transfer, interfacial phenomena in liquids and solids, complex wetting phenomena, multiphase flows, phase change, micro- and nanoscale transport phenomena, and transport phenomena in porous media.

Didier Laux obtained his PhD in 2002 for mechanical properties of high burn-up irradiated nuclear fuel evaluation with ultrasonic methods. He worked 1 year in CEA in Cadarache, France, on homogenization and relocalization approaches in the thermomechanics of irradiated advanced nuclear fuels. Since 2004, he has been an associate professor at...