Gerald S. Frankel
   Fontana Corrosion Center, Ohio State University

  Gerald S. Frankel is the DNV Chair and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University (OSU). He is also Director of the Fontana Corrosion Center. He earned the Sc.B. degree in Materials Science Engineering from Brown University in 1978 and the Sc.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985. Prior to joining OSU in 1995, he was a post doctoral researcher at the Swiss Federal Technical Institute in Zurich, Switzerland, and then a Research Staff Member at the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. He has more than 200 publications, and his primary research interests are in the passivation and localized corrosion of metals and alloys, corrosion inhibition, and protective coatings. He is past chairman of the Corrosion Division of The Electrochemical Society, past chairman of the Research Committee of NACE, and a member of the editorial board of the journals Corrosion, Materials and Corrosion, and Corrosion Reviews. Frankel is a fellow of NACE International, The Electrochemical Society, and ASM International. He has received the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award for Senior US Scientists, the H.H. Uhlig Educators Award from NACE, and the Harrison Faculty Award and Lumley Research Award from the OSU College of Engineering. In 2005 he was on sabbatical at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research in Dusseldorf Germany.

  Srdjan Nesic
   Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Technology, Ohio University

  Srdjan Nesic is a Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Ohio University (OU) and the Director of the Institute for Corrosion and Multiphase Technology, the world leader in the field of corrosion research as it relates to the oil and gas industry. Dr. Nesic has earned his B.S. (1982) and M.S. (1988) degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. This was followed by a PhD degreed at The University of Saskatchewan, Canada in 1991. He has worked as a Research Scientist at the Nucelar Institute Vinca, Serbia and as a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Energy in Oslo, Norway. Prior to joining OU in 2001, Dr Nesic has taught for 6 years at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Queensland, Australia. He has published more than 50 papers in the leading peer-reviewed journals, made over 100 presentations at international conferences and is an author of 60 industrial reports. Dr. Nesic scientific expertise covers the intersection of transport phenomena and electrochemical engineering and he regularly consults for the oil and gas industry on corrosion and multiphase flow problems. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Corrosion, and a fellow of NACE International. In 2001 Dr. Nesic was appointed an Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Engineering, University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia, and in 2006 served as a Visiting Professor at the Department of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, University of Milan, Italy. He received the Bengough award from the Institute of Materials, UK in 1998 and in 2006 he was the recipient of the H.H. Uhlig Educators Award from NACE International.