Sunggyu Lee is a Russ Ohio Research Scholar and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Ohio University, where he is also the director of the Sustainable Energy and Advanced Materials (SEAM) Laboratory. Dr. Lee holds 31 U.S. patents and has authored over 450 journal articles and conference papers. His research areas include alternative fuels, supercritical fluid technology, advanced material processing, chemical process engineering and reactor design, and polymer synthesis and processing.

Kimberly H. Henthorn is an associate professor of chemical engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. Dr. Henthorn's research focuses on particle characterization, solids entrainment and transport, and two-phase microfluidic flows.