His research area includes mathematical modelling, thermal fluid behaviour and stability of nanofluids, improvement of heat transfer by nanofluids, convective multiphase flow, and computational fluid dynamics. He established a Nanofluid Research Laboratory at UP in 2010, which is the most active and productive nanofluids laboratory in Africa. He is an innovative thinker and in 2016 received funds from the Technology Innovation Agency of South Africa (TIA) to construct an emergency cooling design by using nanofluids. In the same year, he published a journal article which offered a new correlation for the density of nanofluids based on nanolayer.

Professor Sharifpur has authored or co-authored of more than 70 peer-reviewed articles (published in accredited journals) and international conference papers about nanofluids. At UP, he has acted as supervisor for three post-doctoral researchers, three PhD students, and ten master’s students, all of which have completed their research. At the moment, he is supervising one post-doctoral researcher, six PhD students and one master student. Also, he guided more than 150 undergraduate final year design and project students.

Professor Sharifpur acts as a reviewer for notable accredited journals and prestigious international conferences. He is registered with the Engineering Council of South Africa as a professional engineer and received a C2 rating scientist for his research activities from the National Research Founds (NRF) of South Africa.

Somchai Wongwises is currently a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering at King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangmod (KMUTT), Bangkok, Thailand. He received his Doktor Ingenieur (Dr.-Ing.) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hannover, Germany, in 1994. His research interests include Gas-Liquid Two-Phase Flow, Heat Transfer Enhancement, and Thermal System Design. He is a member of the technical committee and editorial board of many International Conferences and journals. He has more than 370 research papers published in ISI Journals. Professor Wongwises is the head of the Fluid Mechanics, Thermal Engineering and Multiphase Flow Research Laboratory (FUTURE)

Professor Robert A Taylor's main research interest is in the development of ‘next generation’ solar thermal collectors. Drawing on the fields of heat transfer and nanotechnology, he is researching new/novel working fluids and materials for solar systems, with the main goal is to provide a more efficient and more economic sustainable energy solutions.

Stephan Kabelac is full professor at the Institute for Thermodynamics at the Leibniz University of Hannover. Before this appointment he was heading the Institute for Thermodynamics at the Helmut-Schmidt University, the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg, Germany, from 2001 until 2011. Before that, he was the Chair of the Institute for Thermodynamics at the University of Hannover, Germany, since 1994. From 1991 – 1994 he was in the destillation and heat transfer research group at the Bayer Chemical Company AG in Leverkusen, Germany.

His research topics are connected to condensation and evaporation heat transfer in plate heat exchangers, to heat, mass and charge transport in fuel cells, to the thermodynamic evaluation of solar energy conversion devices and to the measurement of thermophysical and optical properties of nanofluids.

Professor Yimin Xuan has research interests in heat transfer enhancement, thermal management, energy transport, and energy utilization and control. He has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, two books, and filed more than 20 patents in these areas. He is recognized both nationally and internationally for his achievements in nanofluids, thermal radiation, and thermal management, for which he has been awarded a China National Natural Science Award (2nd Prize), China National Scientific and Technological Achievements Award (2nd Prize), and a Science and Technology Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation. He was elected as an Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015.