Prof M. Ziad Saghir is a Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University and Canada's most experienced reduced-gravity researcher. He is Canada's top performer at leveraging departmental and provincial research funds with national (NSERC, CSA) and international funding agencies to pursue Canadian space science objectives onboard the International Space Station (ISS). His talent as a space scientist and university educator is consistently requested by the international space physical science mission community. He leads a group of very strong graduate students and post-docs that come from academia and industry, with interest in and application to deep hydrocarbon reservoirs. His innovation is recognized internationally through consistent invitations from European researchers that identify him as applying the maximum knowledge gained from long-duration gravity-driven phenomena in fluid physics to industrial processes. He has been PI or Co-I of Foton-M2 and M3 SCCO recoverable satellite missions (2007), the ISS SODI-IVIDIL (2009) and DSC (2010) missions, the ISS SODI-DCMIX mission (2011-15), and was the national coordinator of the CSA discipline working group on the role of gravity in metals and alloys. Canada's contribution to the SODI-DCMIX mission is to clarify the role of gravity on the movement of hydrocarbons across temperature gradients-important knowledge for Canada's deep oil reservoir sector (Hybernia Oil field and Northern exploration of oil reservoir deposits). Over the past decade, Prof. Saghir has been working in collaboration with TOTAL and researchers in France to apply innovation to benefit Canada's competitiveness in hydrocarbon extraction from oil reservoirs, a top priority of the Federal Government. He has published over 270 scientific journal paper related to energy. He is currently the chair of the International conference on Thermal Engineering (www.ictea.ca).

Alexander G. Ramm was born in Russia, emigrated to USA in 1979 and is a US citizen. He is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics with broad interests in analysis, scattering theory, inverse problems, theoretical physics, engineering, signal estimation, tomography, theoretical numerical analysis and applied mathematics. He is an author of 737 research papers, 25 research monographs and an editor of 3 books. He has lectured at many Universities throughout the world, gave more than 160 invited and plenary talks at various Conferences, and had supervised 11 Ph.D students. He was Fulbright Research Professor in Israel and Ukraine; distinguished visiting professor in Mexico and Egypt; Mercator Professor in Germany; Research Professor in France; invited plenary speaker at the 7-th PACOM; he won Khwarizmi international award in 2004 and received other honors. A. G. Ramm has introduced a wide class of domains with non-compact boundaries. He studied the spectral properties of the Schr¨odinger operators in this class of such domains and gave suffient conditions for the absence of eigenvalues on the continuous spectrum of these operators. A. G. Ramm developed random fields estimation theory for a wide class of random fields. A.G.Ramm was the first to prove uniqueness of the solution to inverse scattering problems with fixed-energy scattering data; the first to prove uniqueness of the solution to inverse scattering problems with non-over-determined scattering data and the first to study inverse scattering problems with under-determined scattering data. He studied inverse scattering problems for potential scattering and for scattering by obstacles. He solved many specific inverse problems and developed new methods and ideas in the area of inverse scattering problems. He introduced the notion of Property C for a pair of differential operators and applied Property C for one-dimensional and multi-dimensional inverse scattering problems. A. G. Ramm solved many-body wave scattering problem when the bodies are small particles of arbitrary shapes, assuming that a ≪ d ≪ λ, where a is the characteristic size of the particles, d is the minimal distance between neighboring particles, and λ is the wavelength in the material in which the small particles are embedded. Multiple scattering is essential under these assumptions. He used this theory to give a theory for creating materials with a desired refraction coefficient and materials with a desired wave-focusing property. These results attracted attention of the scientists working in nanotechnology. A. G. Ramm gave formulas for the scattering amplitude for scalar and electromagnetic waves by small bodies of arbitrary shapes and analytical formulas for the polarizability tensors for these bodies. A. G. Ramm developed the theory of local, pseudolocal and geometrical tomography. He has proved a variety of the results concerning singularities of the Radon transform and developed multidimensional algorithms for finding discontinuities of signals from noisy discrete data. A. G. Ramm gave a solution to the Pompeiu problem, proved the Schiffer’s conjecture and gave many results about symmetry problems for PDE, including first symmetry results in harmonic analysis. A. G. Ramm has developed the Dynamical Systems Method (DSM) for solving linear and nonlinear operator equations, especially ill-posed. These results were used numerically and demonstrated practical efficiency of the DSM. A. G. Ramm has developed a theory of integral equations with hyper-singular kernels. These results he applied to the study of the NSP (Navier-Stokes problem). As a result, he solved the millennium problem concerning the Navier-Stokes equations. A. G. Ramm formulated and proved the NSP paradox which shows the contradictory nature of the NSP and the non-existence of its solution on the interval t ∈ [0.∞) for the initial data v0(x) ̸≡ 0 and f(x, t) = 0.

Dear Samara, Attached, please find the requested information: Dr. Shadloo is an Associate Professor, since Sept. 2015, at the National Institute of Applied Science (INSA), Rouen and a Researcher at Coria Lab. (CNRS-UMR 6614). Dr. Shadloo is actively engaged in the fields of (i) (aero-) hydrodynamics, turbulence, transitional boundary layers as well as (ii) multiphase, multi-physics fluid flows and heat transfer for the last 10 years. His expertise is mainly in theoretical and computational fluid dynamics (CFD), but has also been active in developing validation strategies and guidelines for CFDist. He aims to develop a new generation high-order coupled algorithm for compressible/incompressible fluid flows with complex physical behaviors, in relation to industrial applications. In this framework, he uses high-performance computing (HPC), high-fidelity direct numerical simulations (DNS) and large-eddy simulations (LES), as well as advance machine learning (ML) techniques to decipher complex instabilities and flow behaviors caused mainly by multi-phase and/or turbulent flows, with heat transfer and compressibility effects.

Ali J. Chamkha is a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Dean of Engineering at Kuwait College of Science and Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University, USA, in 1989. His research interests include multiphase fluid-particle dynamics, nanofluids dynamics, fluid flow in porous media, heat and mass transfer, magnetohydrodynamics and fluid-particle separation. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Nanofluids and has served as anEditor, Associate Editor or a member of the editorial board for many journals such as ASME Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, ASME Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science, International Journal of Numerical Method for Heat and Fluid Flow, Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Thermal Science journal, Scientia Iranica, Special Topics & Reviews in Porous Media,Journal of Porous Media, Journal of Thermal Engineering, Recent Patents on Mechanical Engineering,Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics, International Journal of Fluids and Thermal Sciences,Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer Research,International Journal for Microscale and Nanoscale Thermal and Fluid Transport Phenomena, International Journal of Industrial Mathematics and many others. He has authored and co-authored over 1250 publications in archival international journals and conferences.His current h-index is 145 and total citations is 65,674. Professor Chamkha was included in the World's Top 2% Scientists 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024lists(by Stanford University) with a Global Rank #21, #20, #23, #14 and #10 out of a total of 92,645, 109,724,121,447, 133,525 and 143,311, respectively and Rank #1 at the Arab World level in Mechanical Engineering and Transports category for all these years.

Shigenao Maruyama is a Professor Emeritus and Specially Appointed Visiting Professor of Tohoku University, Sendai Japan. He specialises in thermal and fluid engineering. He has published more than 10 books and 300 academic research papers, and has obtained 60 patents. He has studied various aspects of fluid flow and energy exchange. Based on the principle that conventional heat transfer and thermal control focuses on improving heat transfer and temperature control of equipment, he has proposed a novel concept of heat transfer control in which heat transfer is actively increased or decreased. The proposed active thermal insulation system and heat transfer control device utilises Peltier effects. His work is interdisciplinary, utilising knowledge from various academic disciplines. He has co-authored and edited Thermodynamics (JSME Text series), one of the best-selling books on thermodynamics for mechanical engineering students in Japan. He has also published a book to educate the public about thermal science and a novel describing the accidents at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plants. He received many of the awards listed above. In particular, he received the Medal of Honour with Purple Ribbon from the Japanese government in 2012.