Dr. Peter Vadasz, Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering Northern Arizona University Flagstaff, Arizona, USA Abstracted Biography (updated August 2020) PETER VADASZ obtained his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering, in 1979 and 1983, respectively, from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. He completed the Doctor of Science degree in 1988, also from the Technion. From 1991 till 2002 he was affiliated with the Faculty of Engineering at University of Durban-Westville, South Africa being Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering between 1992 and 1998. From 2002 till present Dr. Vadasz is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, being Professor and Chair of Mechanical Engineering between 2002 and 2008. A past board member of the Royal Society of London - Proceedings A from 2013 till 2020, past Associate Editor of the Journal of Heat Transfer for two terms, a member of the Editoral Advisory Board of the Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, and of the journal Physics, a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).