Burkhard Duenweg has a background in theoretical physics, in particular computational statistical mechanics. He obtained his diploma in 1987, his PhD in 1991, and his "Habilitation" in 2000 (all University of Mainz, Germany, where he was appointed Adjunct Professor in 2008). Since 1996 he works as a Senior Staff Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz. External stays include his postdoc time 1991-1993, Center for Simulational Physics, Athens, Georgia, USA (funded by the Humboldt Foundation), interim professorships in Saarbruecken (2005) and Darmstadt (2014/15), and (currently) a adjunct professorship at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. From 2004-2013 he worked as an Associate Editor for Physical Review E (polymer physics, computational physics). In 2010 he was appointed director of the SMSM CECAM node. His research interests focus mainly on polymer dynamics, colloid dynamics, and electrokinetics, with emphasis on hydrodynamic interactions and simulation method development (Lattice Boltzmann, Molecular Dynamics, Monte Carlo).
Ravi Prakash Jagadeeshan is currently a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Monash University where he has been since 2001. Before joining Monash, he was an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and did postdoctoral work on Sandpile dynamics with Prof. S. F. Edwards at Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, and on Polymer solution rheology with Prof. H. C. Oettinger at ETH Zuerich. He was a Humboldt Fellow in the Techno-Mathematik Department at the University of Kaiserslautern in 1999/2000. Ravi's research interests revolve around understanding the interaction of flow and micro-structure in complex fluids predominantly with the help of nonequilibrium Brownian Dynamics simulations. He is also interested in applying methods of soft matter physics to studying problems in biology. He was the Editor-in-Chief for the Korea-Australia Rheology Journal from 2008 to 2020, and is currently on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Rheology. He was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Rheology in 2019 and was awarded the Medallion of the Australian Society of Rheology in 2020.
Charles M. Schroeder is a Professor and the Ray and Beverly Mentzer Faculty Scholar in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. He is also an Affiliate in the Departments of Chemistry, Materials Science and Engineering, and Bioengineering, and he is a member of the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology and the Institute for Genomic Biology in Biosystems Design. His research focuses on single molecule studies of polymer dynamics and biological systems, and his recent work has extended the field of single polymer dynamics to new materials. Professor Schroeder has been recognized by several awards, including the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, an NSF CAREER Award, the Arthur B. Metzner Award from the Society of Rheology, and a Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering. Professor Schroeder joined the department in 2008. He received his B.S. (1999) in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, followed by an M.S. (2001) and Ph.D. (2004) in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and the University of California, Berkeley.
