Dr. Ioannis K. Nikolos (ORCID: 0000-0002-0675-5880), Mechanical Engineer, is a Professor with the School of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete, Greece and Director of the Turbomachines & Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (TurboLab–TUC). He received his Diploma Degree in Mechanical Engineering (1990) from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and his Ph.D. Degree from the same institution (1996) (Lab. of Thermal Turbomachines - NTUA). Dr. Nikolos is a Visiting Professor with the Institute of Plasma Physics & Lasers (IPPL), Hellenic Mediterranean University. He has more than 30 years of experience in R&D projects funded by the EU, the Industry, and the Greek State. He has coordinated 39 R&D Projects, while he participated as a researcher in 13 additional ones. His research work is in the fields of Fluid Dynamics, Turbomachinery, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Engineering, Engineering Design Optimization and Traffic Flow modelling. He has co-authored one patent family, three books, 60 journal papers and book chapters, 110 conference papers and 16 posters. His work attracted more than 3000 citations (Google Scholar, h-index: 24). Prof. Nikolos has supervised 7 completed PhD Theses and he is currently supervising another 3. He is a Senior Member of AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics), a Member of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) and a Member of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) (Computational Intelligence Society & Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society). He served as a Guest Editor (Mar. 2017 – Oct. 2017) and Associate Editor (Oct. 2017- Jan. 2021) with the ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, and as a Guest Editor for Water, while he is currently serving as an Associate Editor for ASME Open Journal of Engineering. He has been a member of the research team of the TRAMAN21 ERC project, which awarded with the IEEE ITS Society Outstanding Application Award for 2018.

Dr. Anargiros Delis (ORCID: 0000-0001-6898-7321) is a Mathematician, Associate Professor of “Computational Mathematics” at the School of Production Engineering & Management of the Technical University of Crete (TUC), Greece, where he has been working since 2013. He served as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Sciences at TUC from 2003-2013 and a visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Crete from 2000-2003. Prof. Delis is a member of the Applied Mathematics & Computers laboratory at TUC and a member of the Turbomachines & Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (TurboLab–TUC). He is also a collaborative researcher with the Institute of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH-IACM). He is a graduate of the Department of Mathematics of the University of Crete, in 1993, holder of an M.Sc., in Numerical Analysis & Computing, from the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology (UMIST), U.K., 1994, and has received his PhD from the University of the West of England, Bristol, U.K. in Applied and Computational Mathematics in 1998. He has more than 20 years of experience in research and development programs, funded by the Greek State and the European Union. He has served as principal investigator in 3 Research and Development programs, while he has worked in additional 10. His research focuses in the area of Computational Hydrodynamics of Free Surface Flows, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and more generally in the area of Scientific Computing. He has completed the supervision of 1 Doctoral Thesis, while he is currently supervising an additional 2 while he has been in the supervising committee of 9 more Ph.D. students. He is currently the director of the interdepartmental Master’s degree program in “Applied Mathematics” at TUC. He is the co-author of 35 articles in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters and more than 25 articles in peer-reviewed scientific conference proceedings, for which there are over 1400 non-self-citations [h-index (Google Scholar): 20, i10-index (Google Scholar): 28]. Prof. Delis has developed with his research group several CFD and Computational Engineering software. He acts as a reviewer for several international scientific journals, as (among others): Numerical Methods in Fluids, J. of Computational Physics, Computers & Fluids, J. of Aerospace Engineering (ASME), ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering, J. of Scientific Computing, Int. Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (Wiley), Engineering Computations (Emerald), IEEE Intelligent Transport Systems. He currently serves as an Associate Editor in the journals Water (MDPI) and Dynamics (MDPI). He has been a member of the research team of the TRAMAN21 ERC project, which awarded with the IEEE ITS Society Outstanding Application Award for 2018.