Xavier Escaler is an Associate Professor at the Department of Fluid Mechanics of the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering (ETSEIB), Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain. His activities include lecturing, research and technology transfer. He is the Leader of the Barcelona Fluids & Energy Lab (IFLUIDS) at ETSEIB, working on the measurement of flows and structures in hydraulic systems and machines, the development of advanced signal processing methods, the diagnostics of dynamic fluid problems, the use of CFD for the numerical simulation of cavitation and coupled fluid structure systems, the modeling of piping systems with one-dimensional models and the on-line and off-line monitoring of rotating machines for predictive maintenance and condition monitoring.