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Professor Prashant Valluri received his PhD (2004) in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London. His research focuses on tackling industrial multiphase flows with phase-change using bespoke numerical and theoretical techniques. These include stability analyses to understand interfacial instabilities, and DNS for combined heat-mass-momentum transport such as flows with phase change, and flows with mass-transfer and interfacial reactions. He is a Professor of Fluid Dynamics and Director of Chemical Engineering at The University of Edinburgh. He is also Chair of the UK-wide Multiphase Flows and Transport Phenomena Special Interest Group under the UK Fluids Network. He leads development of the ultra-fast high resolution TPLS (Two-Phase Level-Set: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tpls/) and the GIS 1.0 (Gerris Immersed Solid Solver: https://github.com/eessmann/GISS) solvers. These solvers are being employed to gain understanding of fundamental phenomena during phase-change cooling for applications including thermal management of microelectronics, industrial scale boiling applications and most recently spray cooling. He is the Coordinator and the PI of the recently concluded five-continent ThermaSMART project (funded by the European Commission) with 20 other major international participants including 4 industrial partners. Recently, he received an EPSRC-ARCHER2 Pioneer Computational Award e643 for Project STALWART: Speedy IndusTrial ScAle MuLtiphase FloW SimulAtions for EngineeRing Energy Efficient EquipmenT.