Dr. Mitra is a chemical engineer and has over 15 years of experience in process industry and academia. He is currently a research academic in the discipline of Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Newcastle. Prior to entering academia, he had seven years of industry experience as a process engineer in hydrometallurgy of uranium, petrochemicals operation, process modelling and simulations and detailed engineering design of oil and gas processes. His research investigates the complex multiphase flow processes comprising drops, bubbles and particles related to mineral flotation, and iron and steelmaking using both numerical modelling as well as experiment. In mineral flotation area, his research interest involves understanding the complex interactions among bubbles and particles in the presence of turbulence. In ironmaking area, his research interests comprise understanding the flow dynamics of softening and melting behaviour of ore burden in the cohesive zone of blast furnace and sintering. In steelmaking area his interest lies in understanding the flow behaviour in the basic oxygen steelmaking furnace. Dr. Mitra completed his bachelor’s degree from Haldia Institute of Technology (India), master's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur) and a PhD from the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Keijiro Saito received the M.S. in Energy Science from Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan) in 2019. He is now a doctoral program student of Kyoto university. His research interests include chemical thermodynamics of oxide systems for steelmaking.

Wangzhong Mu is Associate Professor at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. He got his PhD degree from KTH and has continuously worked in McMaster University (Canada), Tohoku University (Japan), Ferritico AB (Sweden). His research interest focuses on slag-metal reaction, clean steel, intelligent metallurgy, material design and characterization, etc. He has published over 70 papers in the international peer-reviewed journals, and over 15 times as invited/keynote speakers in international conferences. He has served as PI for over 10 national and international level grants.