Opening Ceremony Speakers

Prof. Davor Zvizdic graduated from primary school in Zagreb 1970, graduated from high school in USA (Detroit) 1974, received Master of Engineering degree in 1979 (University of Zagreb. (Heat engineering/measurement), received Master of Science degree 1983. (University of Zagreb, Automation/Measurement). This was followed by Ph.D. 1986. (University of Zagreb, Numerical heat transfer/Measurement).
He joined Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Department of Heat and Heat Engineering 1987 and became full professor in 1996.
He became Laboratory for Process Measurement director and quality manager at the university in 1991. He founded Croatian National Temperature Standard and Croatian National Pressure Standard in 2000 and Croatian National Dewpoint and Humidity Standard in 2008 and oversaw their maintenance and development.  All three were accredited by DKD, DAkkS and subsequently Croatian NAB HAA and deposited CMCs in CIPM MRA KCDB.
Other activities regarding metrology included: Founder and director general of the Croatian metrology institute (HMI), Representative of the State Party to the Meter Convention – Republic of Croatia, Conference of Weights and Measures – CGPM; Director General of the Laboratory for Heat Energy (LTE), Zagreb; President of CROLAB – The association of Croatian Laboratories; EURAMET GA Delegate; EURAMET TC-T, TC-M, TC-Q Contact Person and Chair; Croatian Quality Society (HDK) governing board president, Croatian Maintenance Society(HDO)  governing board member; assessor and lecturer for several accreditation agencies.

Dr. Stephanie Bell is a specialist in humidity measurement, standards and calibration, with more than 30 years’ experience in the metrology area. She has worked on humidity measurement techniques, primary humidity standards for various humidity quantities, trace moisture in gases, moisture content of materials, water vapour flux (skin water loss), water vapour pressure data and calculations, and uncertainty evaluation. Her work has addressed applications such as meteorology and climate, fuel cells, and hydrogen for vehicles.  Recent interests include research into accurate air temperature measurement, and the development of humidity calibrations in non-air gases and gas mixtures and at above-atmospheric pressures, especially for energy-related gases. Stephanie has chaired national and international committees on humidity, she leads NPL's humidity training course, and she has worked extensively as an assessor for laboratory accreditation in the UK and wider. She has worked on problem-solving consultancies and projects for various humidity applications and has a wide range of published papers, reports and guides on humidity and moisture, measurement uncertainty, and related subjects.

Dr. XiaoJuan Feng received the Ph.D and bachelor's degree from the Department of Thermal Engineering in Tsinghua University in 2010 and 2005, respectively. Then she joined National Institute of Metrology (NIM) in July 2010. She has been worked on the cylindrical acoustic gas thermometry for the determination of the Boltzmann constant and the thermodynamic temperature, temperature measurement techniques using nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond and cryogenic fixed points. She was a guest researcher at National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, USA in 2012, 2017 and at the National Physical Laboratory, UK in 2019. She represents NIM in APMP Technical Committee for Thermometry (TCT) and Consultative Committee for Thermometry (CCT). She is now the chair of the APMP TCT, member of CCT Working Groups (WG) for contact thermometry, digitalization, calibration and measurement capabilities, key comparisons and strategic planning.

Prof. Vito Fernicola is a Research Director at the Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM). He has been with INRIM since 1984 where he has been working in the field of temperature and humidity measurements. He has been involved in the development of primary humidity standards, moisture in materials metrology, fibre-optic and dielectric thermometry, and sensors for industrial temperature and humidity measurements.
He is a delegate at the CIPM Consultative Committee for Thermometry and member of the CCT-WG Humidity, and the delegate at the EURAMET TC-Temperature where he chaired the sub-committee Humidity. He served as the Director of the Thermodynamics Division at INRIM and is currently member of the Board of Directors of INRIM, Vice-President of ACCREDIA, the Italian Accreditation Body, and Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the EURAC Research. He teaches Thermal Measurements and Controls at the Politecnico of Torino, Italy.
He authored some 150 papers, many of them published in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and holds four patents on novel measurement technologies.

Dr. Mohamed Sadli is the head of the temperature division of at the joint laboratory for metrology LNE-Cnam and the vice-director of the laboratory. After a Master degree in Solid-State Physics obtained in the university of science and technology in Algiers (USTHB), he defended a PhD degree in Metrology at Cnam in 1997 which was devoted to the study of the applications of pressure-controlled heat-pipes in thermometry. He joined the radiation thermometry group of LNE-Cnam immediately after the PhD to lead the research and calibration activities in this area. He was appointed the responsibility of coordinating the research activities in thermometry and leading the temperature group of LNE-Cnam in 2018 as well. 
His current research activities are primary thermometry, high-temperature fixed points, radiation thermometry and thermocouples. He authored or co-authored more than 170 research articles and communications. He represents France at the consultative committee for thermometry (CCT), the EURAMET technical committee for thermometry (EURAMET TC-T) that he chairs currently, and IMEKO TC-12. He contributes to the activities of CCT “Non-Contact Thermometry” working group that he joined in 2002. He was, and still is, actively involved in many European joint research projects in the last two decades with a particular emphasis on high-temperature fixed point investigations and thermodynamic temperature measurement. He is involved in many accreditation bodies, including COFRAC (French national accreditation body), as a technical assessor for thermometry and radiation thermometry.
He chairs the National Organising Committee of the joint symposium TEMPMEKO & ISHM 2025 gathering 15 participants from Cnam, LNE and Cetiat.

Dr. Thierry Horsin is the current vice-provost for research and innovation at the CNAM.
Former student at ENS Cachan, he completed his doctorate in applied mathematics there in 1994, while also working as a teaching assistant, after spending two years teaching at a technical high school in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) as part of a cooperation program.
Recruited as a lecturer at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, he obtained there his "habilitation à diriger des recherches".
He joined the CNAM as a professor in 2011, where he took over the project to create the research department M2N (Mathematical and numerical modelizations). He led this team until 2015, before taking over as head of the national Mathematics and Statistics department, a position he held until his appointment as vice-provost.
Elected member of the scientific council, which he chaired,  of the board of directors, and of the training council of the CNAM, Thierry Horsin also chaired the french learned society "Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics" (SMAI) from 2017 to 2020 and held positions as an elected member or representative within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) between 2020 and 2024. He is also the current chair of the scientific committee of the french Institutes for Research in Mathematics Education (Irem).

Dr. Martin Milton received a BA in Physics from Oxford University in 1981 and a PhD in Laser Physics from Southampton University in 1990 followed by an MBA from the London Business School in 1991.
Dr Milton joined the BIPM in October 2012 as Director Designate and became Director on 1 January 2013. Before his move to the BIPM, Dr Milton spent 31 years at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), United Kingdom where he was a Fellow in the Analytical Science Division.
During his term as Director, the BIPM has introduced the new definitions for the SI base units which has changed the global perspective on metrology at the highest level. He is now driving forward the digital transformation of metrology and of BIPM’s services. In 2022, he sought the approval of Member States a new initiative to increase participation in the work of the BIPM to reach the goal of universal engagement conceived by the founding nations in 1875.
In June 2025, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by King Charles III.