Raynald Gauvin received his Ph.D. in 1990 at École Polytechnique de Montréal in Metallurgical Engineering. He was then appointed as an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering at Sherbrooke University where he became associate professor in 1995 and full professor in 1998. In 2001, he joined the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering of McGill University, Montréal, Canada, as a full professor. His research interests are related to developing new methods to characterize the microstructure of materials using high-resolution scanning electron microscopy with X-ray microanalysis and Monte Carlo simulations. He won several scientific prices, most notably the 31st Canadian Materials Physics Medal in 2007 by the Metallurgical Society of the Canadian Institute of Mining, the Heinrich Award in 1997 from the Microbeam Analysis Society of America, and the Prix d'excellence du président de l’école for the best Doctorate Thesis defended in 1990 at École Polytechnique de Montréal. He is currently the President of the Inter-American Societies of Electron Microscopy (CIASEM). He was President of the Microbeam Analysis Society of America (MAS) from 2005 to 2006, President of the Microscopical Society of Canada (SMC) from 2001 to 2003, and President of the International Union of the Microbeam Analysis Societies (IUMAS) from 2000 to 2005.
Ali Dolatabadi is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of
Toronto. He received a BASc from the University of Science and Technology, an MASc from the University of Tehran, and a PhD from the University of Toronto (2002). Before joining the University of Toronto, Ali Dolatabadi was a Tier 1 Concordia University Research Chair in Multiphase Flow and Thermal Spray. He is the founder and co-director of the Thermal Spray and Surface Engineering (TSSE) Research Centre at Concordia University. Ali Dolatabadi is the recipient of the Young Research Achievement Award and a member of Provost’s Circle of
Distinction at Concordia University. He has received multiple awards for excellence in teaching, including the President’s Award in 2018. He served as a member and co-chair of the NSERC-DG evaluation group, mechanical engineering (2016–2019), and the CRIAQ/CARIC Scientific Evaluation Committee (2018–2021). He was elected the President of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME) from 2014 to 2016. Currently, he is the President of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC).
