Dr. Ezequiel F. Médici is a Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering-Engineering Mechanics at Michigan Tech University with experience in a broad range of interdisciplinary research projects, including multiphase flow in porous media, heat and mass transport in fuel cells, phase change in cryogenic fluids, and analog modeling of shock waves and supersonic jets. Over the past 12 years, he has been studying how heat and mass transport in porous media affects the performance of polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Dr. Médici is also the manager of the Atmospheric Shock Tube Laboratory, where he focuses primarily on the fundamental study of shock waves and supersonic jets dynamics.
Dr. Alejandro Otero is an Assistant Professor at University of Buenos Aires and Researcher at the Computational Simulation Center of the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (Argentina), where he leads the Renewable Energy Group. He specializes in numerical simulation techniques for solving PDE problems from fluid and solid mechanics, heat and mass transfer and multiphysics (fluid-structure interaction, thermomechanics, porous media flow, etc.) which typically appear in sciences and engineering. Lately he has devoted to the implementation of those techniques in HPC environments.
Dr. Otero is a Mechanical Engineer (2002) and Doctor in Engineering (2008) from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA). He has been Postdoctoral Research Scholar (2008) and Visiting Research Professor (2013) at Michigan Tech University, USA; and Scientific Collaborator at GFZ, Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam, Germany (2015, 2017).
