Prof. Ali Kosar received his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Bogazici University in 2001. He pursued his graduate studies in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute between 2001 and 2006. He completed his M.S. and Ph.D. in 2003 and 2006, respectively. He continued with his post-doctoral study at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute between 2006 and 2007, and joined the Department of Mechatronics Engineering at Sabanci University, Istanbul, in 2007. He is a Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA). He received many awards such as as the “µFIP Prominent Researcher Award” in the 2021 Micro Flow and Interfacial Phenomena (µFIP) Conference, ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) ICNMM (International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels and Minichannels) Outstanding Early Career Award, Japan, Sapporo (2013). His research interests constitute a wide spectrum covering heat and fluid flow on a micro/nanoscale, condensation, boiling heat transfer, microfluidic systems, and cavitation.