Prof. Marcio Carvalho is a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pontifícia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has been active in microscale flow research for more than 20 years. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1995, with a thesis on the basic mechanisms, experiments, theory, and computer-aided analysis of the roll coating process that makes use of deformable rolls. He worked as a Senior Process Development Engineer at 3M Company and Imation Corporation in the R&D of pre-metered coating, roll coating, and drying technologies. He is now a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, in Brazil. He is also a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. His research is focused on several aspects of the coating process, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, the micro-scale flow of emulsions, flow in porous media with applications in Enhanced Oil Recovery, and numerical methods. Prof. Carvalho received the Young Investigator Award from the International Society for Coating Science and Technology (ISCST) in 2004.