Dr. Khalil Khanafer is an Assistant Professor of the College of Innovation and Technology, at the University of Michigan-Flint. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Ohio State University, and has several years of research experience in the field of computational thermo-fluid dynamics and biomedical engineering. His research focuses on the multiphysics modeling and simulation of laser additive manufacturing process, the fluid-structure interaction (FSI) analysis of flow and heat transfer in thermal systems, the hemodynamics analysis of various vascular diseases, medical devices, the thermal management of high heat flux electronic devices, applications of nanoparticles in solar energy and desalination, energy harvesting using piezoelectric, laminar, and turbulent transport phenomena in porous media, and flow and heat transfer in biological tissues. He is the Associate Editor for the Journal of Porous media and the Special Topics and Reviews in Porous Media - An International Journal (STRPM).