Makoto Imanaka studied Chemical Engineering at Nagoya University, Japan and graduated as MS in 1976. After working at a chemical company for 3 years, he worked Industrial Research Institute of Hyogo Prefecture as a researcher. He received his PhD degree in 1986 at Nagoya University. Then, he obtained the position of an Associate Professor at Osaka University of Education in 1990, was promoted to professor in 1997 and now an professor of emeritus.

Savvas G. Hatzikiriakos obtained his diploma in chemical engineering from the Aristotelean University of Thessaloniki (1983), his M.A.Sc. in chemical engineering from the University of Toronto (1988) and his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from McGill University. Since 1991 he is been a professor in the department of chemical and biological engineering at the University of British Columbia. His main research interests are in the area of polymer rheology, polymer processing and surface science. He has published over 240 referred journal papers, 115 papers in conference proceedings, 180 conference presentations, five patents and one book on polymer processing instabilities. Prof Hatzikiriakos is a member of the Canadian Academy of Engineering as well Associate Editor of Physics of Fluids.