Marcio Carvalho 

Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.  Principal Investigator in the Coating Process Fundamentals Program.  

Research interests: Precision coating processes (slot, slide, curtain), fluid mechanics, interfacial phenomena, rheology.

Satish Kumar 

Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota.  Leader of the Coating Process Fundamentals Program.  

Research interests:  Coating flows and interfacial phenomena in coating and printing processes.

Xiang Cheng 

Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota. Principal Investigator in the Coating Process Fundamentals Program.  

Research interests: Colloids, polymers, rheology, visualization

Chris Ellison

Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota. Faculty Director, Industrial Partnership for Research in Interfacial and Materials Engineering (IPRIME).

Research interests:  Design, synthesis, characterization, and processing of nanostructured polymeric systems