KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Dr. Günter Brenn
Dr. Günter Brenn received his Aerospace Engineering degree from the University of Stuttgart in Germany in 1985. He received his Ph.D. from the same university in 1990. His doctoral research on drop shape oscillations was supervised by Professor A. Frohn (Institute of Aerospace Thermodynamics).
After a two-year post-doctoral stay in Japan, he joined Professor F. Durst’s Chair of Fluid Mechanics (LSTM) at the University of Erlangen (Germany) in 1992. Here, Dr. Brenn completed his habilitation in fluid mechanics in 1999.
In 2002, he took his present full professor position at the University of Technology in Graz, Austria. He teaches fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer. His research interests are spray flows, the rheology and rheometry of complex liquids, heat and mass transfer in disperse systems, the stability of free-surface flows, and optical flow measuring techniques. He pub-lished more than 100 papers in scientific journals, the monograph “Analytical Solutions for Transport Processes” (Springer, 2017), and more than 130 contributions to scientific conferences. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Atomization and Sprays and of the editorial advisory board of Experiments in Fluids.
Dr. Jiro Senda
Dr. Jiro Senda received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Doshisha University (Japan) in 1978, his Master’s from Doshisha University in 1980 and his Ph.D. from Doshisha University in 1985. During and after his doctoral research, Dr. Senda took a position at Yanmar Diesel Technical Research Center and remained until 1990.
After his time at Yanmar Diesel, Dr. Senda spent the last 27 years holding various positions at Doshisha University. He started as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and quickly moved up to Associate, then full Professor status in 1998. Prior to this, he spent one year as a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin – Madison from 1994-95. During his time as a full professor at Doshisha University, Dr. Senda has also held varying and prestigious titles including Director of Energy Conversion Research Center, Dean of Library and Information Technology Center, and Director of Science and Engineering Research Institute.
To stay active in the scientific and industrial community, Dr. Senda actively participates in several membership committees and holds a number of professional registrations. His major research and field interests include optical measurements, fuels, spray dynamics, spray and combustion control for internal combustion engines, modeling and CFD, and sustainable urban design with optimum energy application.
Dr. Marios Soteriou
Dr. Marios Soteriou received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College in 1987, his Master’s from Columbia University in 1988 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1993.
He currently holds the Fellow of Research position at the United Technologies Research Center (UTRC) with a focus on combustion and multiphase flow. In this role, he fosters technical excellence, champions strategic opportunities, develops project content, guides technical execution, develops new capabilities, mentors staff development, and supports UTRC’s operational excellence. Prior to this position, Dr. Soteriou served as Group Leader for Combustion Dynamics and Research Engineer at UTRC. Before entering the private sector, Dr. Soteriou held an Assistant Professor position in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Connecticut and a Post-Doctoral Re-search Associate position at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
In his research, Dr. Soteriou employs modeling and simulation as tools to probe the physics of multiscale flows, such as reacting and multiphase flows, and exploits this understanding towards enhancing the device performance where these flows occur. His specific research interests include (i) combustion with emphasis on the dynamics of reacting flows, turbulence-combustion interactions and thermoacoustics, (ii) two-phase flows with emphasis on sprays, lubrication and cavitation, (iii) fluid mechanics with emphasis on Lagrangian transport, flow kinematics and vortex dynamics, (iv) aeroacoustics, with emphasis on low Mach number shear flow noise generation (v) buoyancy driven flows with emphasis on plumes and fires. He is the author of 34 peer-reviewed journal publications, seven patents and many conference papers, and has delivered more than 80 external technical presentations at conferences and as an invited speaker at universities.
His professional awards include the Innovation Excellence Award for Outstanding Application of High Performance Computing from the International Data Corporation, and best paper awards from the International Gas Turbine Institute of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME-IGTI) and American Helicopter Society. He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and a member the Institute of Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems (ILASS), the American Physical Society (APS), the Combustion Institute (CI) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
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