Dr. Seyed Mohammad Taghavi holds the Canada Research Chair in Complex Flow Modeling and is currently a professor at Université Laval. In 2011, he received his PhD from the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He has approximately three years of postdoctoral experience in complex flow analysis at UBC, the University of Michigan and McGill University, where he held Banting and Tomlinson postdoctoral fellowships. His research interests focus on complex flows, fluid mechanics, interfacial flows, hydrodynamic stability and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics. He has received numerous awards/grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation and others. He has co-authored over 100 publications on various fluid flow problems in prestigious peer-reviewed journals.