Dr. Philip Cardiff holds a post as Bekaert Lecturer of Materials Processing within the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at University College Dublin. A graduate of Mechanical Engineering, Philip completed a PhD at UCD in the area of computational biomechanics, developing contact methodologies based on the finite volume method in OpenFOAM for hip joint simulations. Upon completing his PhD, Philip spent time as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow working on the development of computational models within the Irish Composites Centre at UCD, and within the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include the development of finite volume methods for solid mechanics and fluid-solid interactions, with applications ranging from biomechanics and materials processing, to composites and geomechanics.

Dr. Roger Almenar is a Technical Manager at OpenCFD, part of ESI Group, producer and distributor of OpenFOAM. He is Industrial Engineer from the Technical University of Valencia (Spain), working at ESI Group since 2003. He started to work with OpenFOAM around 2007,and got involved deeper in the exciting OpenFOAM project as part of the OpenCFD team since 2014. He has almost 20 years’ experience performing and managing projects in Computational Fluid Dynamics for Product Development, from Software to Engineering applications in different fields like Automotive, Aeroacoustics, Process Industry and others. Initially at Ford Motor Company supporting vehicle engineering development for underhood applications, from CFD application usage to validation and verification of processes, and after this initial years, he continued supporting Customers for their Product and Software development applications by means of CFD, first with multi-product and later on focused on OpenFOAM and on the OpenFOAM Community. Today, he is defining solutions for our worldwide Customers around OpenFOAM.