James (Jim) Brasseur is currently Research Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder after 27 years as Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Mathematics at the Pennsylvania State University, where he retains Emeritus and Adjunct Professor status. Dr. Brasseur is a fluid dynamist with extensive expertise in the integrated fluid/solid mechanics and physiology of the gastro-intestinal tract, and with separate expertise in turbulence physics, turbulence simulation and turbulent flows. Over his academic career, he has lead a wide range of research programs in GI physio-mechanics aimed at normal vs. abnormal physiology and function of the esophagus, stomach, intestines, and anal-rectal unit, as well as the complex physio-mechanical mechanisms underlying sphincter function. Dr. Brasseur has also evolved a related research track on release, transport, and absorption from drug particles within the upper GI tract. Professor Brasseur’s turbulence programs have applied primarily computational and mathematical methods. Recently he lead major NSF and DOE programs focused on the interactions between atmospheric turbulence and wind turbines and currently he focuses on advanced large-eddy simulation modeling strategies for premixed turbulent combustion prediction. Dr. Brasseur has served on governing boards of the American Physical Society (APS) and APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, was past president of a medical society and on the governing board of another; he was founding Chair of the APS Topical Group on the Physics of Climate. Dr. Brasseur is a member of the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars and is Fellow of the American Physical Society.