Professor Ryoichi S. Amano is an internationally recognized scientist in thermal engineering, experimental fluid dynamics, turbulence research, and energy systems. For a number of years he has been engaged in research related to gas turbine performance, rotating machinery, power engineering, transport phenomena, heat/mass transfer, two-phase flow, and manufacturing material processes. Dr Amano has also contributed to the development of turbulence theories, jets, combustion, heat transfer, propulsion, aerodynamics, and applications to gas turbine and aerospace-related projects. In addition, he has engaged in gas turbine flow analyses of NASA space shuttle main engines and solid rocket motor research of US Air Force Research Labs, industrial gas turbines, steam turbines, and cooling technology using impinging gas jets. Dr Amano has more than 500 publications, including books, refereed journal papers, invited review chapters, and conference proceedings. He has conducted numerous experimental and analytical research projects with extramural funding from US governmental agencies and many industries. Dr Amano is a technical committee member, editorial board member and international advisory committee member for ASME, AIAA, WIT Conferences, ISETS conferences (Japan) and an executive member of ASME International Gas Turbine Institute, AIAA Terrestrial Energy System, and ASME Energy Systems Committee. In addition, Dr Amano has received three Best Paper awards from ASME, the Sustained Service Award from AIAA, the AIAA Energy Systems Award, the ASME George Westinghouse Gold Medal, and a UWM Excellence of Research Award. He is a Fellow of ASME and Associate Fellow of AIAA.

Bengt Sundén received his M.S. in 1973, Ph.D. in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics in 1979, and docent in applied thermodynamics and fluid mechanics in 1980, all from Chalmers Universities of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden. He became Professor of Heat Transfer in 1992 at Lund University. Since 1995 he serves as the head of the Department of Energy Sciences, Lund University, Sweden.

His research topics are enhancement of heat transfer in compact heat exchangers, computational methods of convective flow and heat transfer in complex narrow geometries, combustion-related heat transfer including thermal radiation, gas turbine heat transfer (impinging jets, film cooling, ribbed ducts), evaporation and condensation in plate heat exchangers, thermal imaging techniques, PIV, and multiscale and multiphysics transport phenomena in fuel cells.

He has published more than 500 journal papers, books, and proceedings. He has also delivered many keynote and invited lectures. He has been editor of 25 books published by international publishing houses and author of two textbooks (one in Swedish, one in English).

He is involved in referee tasks for more than 40 international journals and has been active in several international and organizing committees and boards. He is also editor-in-chief for a book series, Developments in Heat Transfer (also published by WIT Press). In addition, he is active editor for four journals. He is a fellow of the ASME and a 2011 recipient of the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award.