Dr. Sigmund is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. He has been at UF since 1999 coming from the Max-Planck Institute of Metals Research and University of Stuttgart. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Critical Reviews of Solid State and Materials Sciences and an elected member of the European Academy of Sciences. Dr. El-Shall is Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Associate Director for Research at The Particle Engineering Research Center of University of Florida. He has been at UF since 1994. He also served as Associate Director for Beneficiation Research at the Florida Institute of Phosphate Research from 1986-1992. He co-edited six books related to phosphate processing. He serves as an editor and reviewer for several archival Journals. Dinesh O. Shah is Professor Emeritus and Founding Director (1984–2008) of the Center for Surface Science and Engineering at University of Florida. He was the First Charles Stokes Professor in Chemical Engineering Department. He served as a joint faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Anesthesiology, working on interfacial phenomena in engineering and biomedical systems. He has been a recipient of several awards for excellence in teaching, research and scholarship over the past four decades. He is among the top one percent of most frequently cited scientists in the world. He has published widely in the areas of monolayers, foams, macro-and microemulsions, and surface phenomena in contact lenses, membranes, lungs and anesthesia. He was a thrust leader for nanobio systems in the particle engineering research center. He has edited 11 books and monographs and has published about 250 papers. Brij M. Moudgil is a Distinguished Professor and Alumni Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Florida. He is also serving as the Director of the Particle Engineering Research Center. His research interests are in polymer and surfactant adsorption, dispersion and aggregation of fine particles, nanotoxicity, multifunctional nanoparticles for bioimaging, diagnosis, and therapy, nanoparticulate processing and separation technology for enhanced performance in mineral, chemical, microelectronics, pharmaceutics, advanced materials, and resource recovery & waste disposal applications. He received his B.E degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India and his M.S and Eng.Sc.D degrees from the Columbia University, New York, NY. He has published more than 300 technical papers and has been awarded 14 patents. He has been recognized by his peers with several professional awards. In 2002 he was elected as a member of the U.S National Academy of Engineering. He can be reached at bmoudgil@perc.ufl.edu.
