Bengt Sundén received his M.S. in 1973, Ph.D. in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics in 1979, and docent in applied thermodynamics and fluid mechanics in 1980, all from Chalmers Universities of Technology, Goteborg, Sweden. He became Professor of Heat Transfer in 1992 at Lund University. Since 1995 he serves as the head of the Department of Energy Sciences, Lund University, Sweden.

His research topics are enhancement of heat transfer in compact heat exchangers, computational methods of convective flow and heat transfer in complex narrow geometries, combustion-related heat transfer including thermal radiation, gas turbine heat transfer (impinging jets, film cooling, ribbed ducts), evaporation and condensation in plate heat exchangers, thermal imaging techniques, PIV, and multiscale and multiphysics transport phenomena in fuel cells.

He has published more than 500 journal papers, books, and proceedings. He has also delivered many keynote and invited lectures. He has been editor of 25 books published by international publishing houses and author of two textbooks (one in Swedish, one in English).

He is involved in referee tasks for more than 40 international journals and has been active in several international and organizing committees and boards. He is also editor-in-chief for a book series, Developments in Heat Transfer (also published by WIT Press). In addition, he is active editor for four journals. He is a fellow of the ASME and a 2011 recipient of the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award.

Prof Carlos Brebbia graduated at the University of Litoral, Argentina. He received his PhD at Southampton University, England in 1968 and worked at MIT, USA and the Central Electricity Research Laboratories, UK as well as the University of Princeton, USA.

Prof Carlos Brebbia was appointed Lecturer at the University of Southampton, UK in 1969 and a senior lecturer in 1976 before becoming a Reader in Computational Engineering. In 1979 he became Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of California at Irvine. He founded and was Chairman of Computational Mechanics and Director of Wessex Institute of Technology until his death in 2018.

Prof Carlos Brebbia wrote over 250 scientific papers, authored or co-authored 14 books and edited or co-edited over 500 other books. He was an internationally well-known specialist in numerical methods, finite and boundary elements and in the computer solution of engineering problems. Prof Carlos Brebbia founded several international journals and served as the Editor or co-editor of five scientific journals.  He carried out a great deal of consultancy work for the engineering industry as well as having participated in many international projects and conferences.