David Wooff is Senior Lecturer in Statistics, University of Durham, and Director of the University's Statistics and Mathematics Consultancy Unit since its establishment in 1996. His main interests are applied statistics and the application of Bayesian statistical approaches to industrial problems. These currently include Bayes linear methods for commodity trading; the next generation of methods for software testing via Bayesian graphical models; parsimonious representations of oil reservoirs; and a Bayesian approach to detecting leaks in pipelines. He has co-authored (with Michael Goldstein) a research monograph on Bayes linear methods and has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles since 2000. He sits on the scientific committee of the Knowledge Transfer Network for Industrial Mathematics, and is an editorial board member for the Open Software Engineering Journal. Recent and current research students have worked in the areas of child growth statistics; clinical data analysis and dimension reduction; Bayesian commodity trading; training evaluation; and Bayesian approaches to exploiting e-commerce traffic.

Professor Gringarten holds the chair of petroleum engineering at Imperial College in London, where he is director of the Centre for Petroleum Studies. Before joining Imperial in 1997, he held a variety of senior technical and management positions with Scientific Software-Intercomp (1983-1997); Schlumberger (1978-1982); and the French Geological Survey (1973-1977); and was a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California in Berkeley, USA, from 1970 to 1972. His research interests include fissured fluid-bearing formations; fractured wells; gas condensate and volatile oil reservoirs; high and low enthalpy geothermal energy; hot dry rocks; and radioactive waste disposal. He holds MSc and PhD degrees in petroleum engineering from Stanford University, USA; and an engineering degree from Ecole Centrale Paris, France. The author of over 80 scientific publications, he was the recipient of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Cedric K. Ferguson certificate for 2004, the SPE John Franklin Carll award for 2003 and the SPE Formation Evaluation award for 2001. A member of SPE since 1969, he was elected a Distinguished Member in 2002.

Professor Blunt's research interests are in multiphase flow in porous media with applications to oil and gas recovery, carbon sequestration and contaminant transport and clean-up in polluted aquifers. He performs experimental, theoretical and numerical research in many aspects of flow and transport in porous systems, including pore-scale modelling of displacement processes, and large-scale simulation using streamline-based methods. He is on the editorial board of SPE Journal, Transport in Porous Media, water Resource Research and Advances in Water Resources. He has over 100 scientific publications.

Professor Hewitt has worked on a variety of subjects in the general field of chemical engineering but his speciality for several decades now has been in multiphase flow systems. He has published many papers and books in this industrially important area and has lectured on the subject widely throughout the world. He has a wide experience of industrial application through his founding of the Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Service (HTFS) at Harwell and through extensive consultancy and contract work. Professor Hewitt's contributions to the field have been recognised by his election to the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the US National Academy of Engineering in addition to international awards.

Velisa Vesovic's research interest is in modelling transport phenomena. The approach is to concentrate on developing models in terms of a rigorous, fundamental description of the underlying physics based on fluid mechanical, thermodynamical and heat transfer configurations. His current research is in understanding and modelling of: thermophysical properties of fluids with special emphasis on reservoir fluids; transport of chemical species in electrochemical engineering applications; and the dispersion phenomena associated with industrial or accidental release of pollutants into fluid media and their subsequent environmental impact. He has published over seventy papers and reviews in refereed scientific literature.