Prof. Marcio Carvalho received a B.Sc degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Military Institute of Engineering (IME) in 1989, M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) in 1991 and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, in 1995.  He worked as Senior Process Development Engineer at 3M Company and Imation Corporation (in USA) in the areas of pre-metered coating and drying technologies.  In 1998, he moved back to Brazil, where he is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at PUC-Rio.  He is also a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science at the University of Minnesota since 2007. His research is focused on several aspects of capillary hydrodynamics, including coating process, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics in micro scale flows, microencapsulation, flow of complex fluids in porous media with applications in enhanced oil recovery and CO₂ underground storage. Prof. Carvalho received the Young Investigator Award (2004) and the Talmadge Award (2020), both from the International Society for Coating Science and Technology (ISCST) and the ANP Technical Innovation Award in 2018.