Daniel De Kee, Ph.D., is a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada, Chair of the XIIth International Congress on Rheology, and is currently Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. He is Associate Editor of the journal Physics of Fluids (AIP Publishing) and authored over 200 papers in non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and polymer processing. He is the co-author of five textbooks and eight edited books.

Arun Ramachandran, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada and is Canada Research Chair in Engineered Soft Materials and Interfaces. Dr. Ramachandran publishes research in prestigious journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) (National Academy of Sciences), Physical Review Letters (American Physical Society), and Journal of Fluid Mechanics (Cambridge University Press), among many others.