John H. Lienhard V is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Water and Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Lienhard’s research focuses on heat and mass transfer, water purification and desalination, thermodynamics, and separation processes. He has directly supervised more than 90 PhD and masters theses, and he is the author of more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and 3 textbooks. He has been issued more than 40 US patents, most of which have been commercialized through start-up companies. Lienhard is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Society of Thermal and Fluid Engineers. He is a recipient of the 2012 ASME Technical Communities Globalization Medal, the 2015 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award, the 2019 ASME Edward F. Obert Award, the 2021 AIChE/ASME Donald Q. Kern Award, and the IDRA 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Dr. Sinan Keten is a professor of engineering and computational materials science and mechanics at Northwestern University. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research expertise is on computational materials science and mechanics, emphasizing two areas: (1) nanostructured polymeric materials and (2) biomolecular and bioinspired materials.
