Gerald Fuller
Fletcher Jones Professor in Chemical Engineering Department, Standford University
He conducts research in rheology of complex fluids, interfacial fluid mechanics and optical rheometry techniques. He conducted pioneering work leading to understanding the behavior of polymers, emulsions, suspensions, and biological fluids under flow. He summarized much of this work in his influential textbook Optical Rheometry of Complex Fluids (1995). He received the Bingham Medal of the Society of Rheology in 1997. He was president of the Society of Rheology (1999 – 2001). He is Fellow of a the American Physical Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Science and member of the National Academy of Engineering and of the American Institute of Physics Publishing.
Christopher W. Macosko
Christopher W. Macosko Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, is the founder and past Director of the University of Minnesota Rheological Measurements Short Course. He has aided development of several commercial rheometers and numerous test methods, and conducted research in polymer-polymer blends, nanocomposites, and the rheology of reacting systems. He is currently writing the 2nd Edition of his popular rheology textbook. He received 2023 Goodyear Medal from the ACS Rubber Division, and the 2004 Bingham Medal of the Society of Rheology. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Dimitris Vlassopoulos
Dimitris Vlassopoulos is Professor of Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Crete (since 2002) and Affiliated Faculty Member of FORTH (since 1992), a National Research Center in Greece. He received his diploma from the National Technical University in Athens, Greece (1983), and his MA (1986) and Ph.D. (1990) at Princeton, all in Chemical Engineering. He has worked industrially for Metelco in Greece (1983-1984) and Mobil R&D in Paulsboro, NJ (1990-1992). He has been visiting Professor in several European and American Universities.
The underlying theme of his research is the molecular rheology and engineering of soft materials. Experimental strategies to probe the rheology-structure interplay are devised, based on the design of model systems with adaptable molar mass, macromolecular architecture or tunable interactions, and on bridging polymers and colloids.
Vlassopoulos received the FORTH prize for basic research (2009), the 2015 Weissenberg Award of the European Society of Rheology, and the 2019 Bingham Medal of the SOR. He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (DPOLY) in 2019 and of the SOR in 2018.
He is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Rheology since 2022 and has served as co-Editor of Rheologica Acta (2006-2011) and Associate Editor of Soft Matter (2015-2021).
Carlos R. Lopez-Barron
Research Scientist at ExxonMobil
His research work centers on microstructure–property relationships in polymer systems, including: rheology and in-situ characterization techniques, polyolefins and complex architectures, micellar solutions, gels and networks, and polymer blends. He is the current editor of the Rheology Bulletin of the Society of Rheology. He is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Rheology. He is a Fellow of the Society of Rheology and of the American Chemical Society (Poly Division).
Octavio Manero
Octavio Manero is Professor Emeritus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and of the National Research System (SNI). He received his BSc and MSc degrees from UNAM and his PhD from the University of Wales, U.K. He was Research Fellow at the California Institute Technology and he is associated member of the University of Wales Institute of non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics. He conducts research on Rheology of complex fluids, Biorheology, Soft matter, Hydrocarbons and Transport Phenomena, with particular interest on new constitutive equations. He has participated in projects with industry, the Mexican Petroleum Institute and other government institutions. He was president of the Mexican Polymer Society and cofounder of the Mexican Material Science Society, and was awarded the National Science Prize from the Mexican Government.
J. Esteban López-Aguilar
Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department, Facultad de Química, UNAM
López- Aguilar is appointed to the Chemical Engineering Department, Facultad de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) since 2017. He received his Bachelors (2007) and Masters (2009) degrees from UNAM, and his PhD in Chemical Engineering (2016) from Swansea University (UK), where he also carried out postdoctoral activities at the Zienkiewicz Centre for Computational Engineering (2016-2017). He is Level 2 in the National System of Researchers, SECIHTI, MX-Government. He belongs to various scientific societies, including his Associate Membership to the Institute of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics (UK), his Visiting Fellowship to the Basque Centre for Applied Mathematics (BCAM; Bilbao, Spain), and acting as Board Member to the Mexican Polymer Society. His research interests focus on Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, with special emphasis on computational rheology and constitutive modeling of complex fluids and soft matter, such as viscoelastic surfactant solutions, melts and polymer solutions, suspensions and biofluids.