Dimitrios V. Papavassiliou is C.M. Sliepcevic Professor, School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, University of Oklahoma, USA. His research focuses on the fundamental understanding and modelling of transport processes with industrial and environmental interest. Novel computational methods are developed and applied to explore turbulent transport of mass and heat, flow and mass transfer in bioreactors, heat transfer in micro- and nano-fluidics, and flow and transport through porous media