Ovadia Shoham is F.M. Stevenson Distinguished Presidential Chair Professor of Petroleum Engineering at the University of Tulsa. He received his PhD degree in mechanical engineering from Tel Aviv University and his MS and BS degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Houston and the Technion in Israel, respectively. Shoham has spent the past 24 years as a faculty member at the University of Tulsa teaching graduate courses on two-phase flow and conducting and advising relevant research. He also teaches courses and consults to the Petroleum Industry worldwide on oil and gas production, transportation, and separation. Since 1994 Shoham has directed the Tulsa University Separation Technology Projects (TUSTP), conducting research on compact multiphase separation technology. Shoham is widely published, with over 90 publications on multiphase flow, well known and well respected in “multiphase” circles, having received SPE’s prestigious Production and Operation award in 2003.