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The Editors

Dr. Klaus Brun, Elliott Group, Jeannette, PA, United States
Dr. Brun is the director of Research & Development at Elliott Group where
he leads a group of over 60 professionals in the development of turbomachinery
and related systems for the energy industry. His past experience includes posi-
tions in product development, engineering, project management, and executive
management at Southwest Research Institute, Solar Turbines, General Electric,
and Alstom. He holds 9 patents, authored over 350 papers, and published 3 text-
books on energy systems and turbomachinery. Dr. Brun is a Fellow of the
ASME and won an R&D 100 award in 2007 for his Semi-Active Valve inven-
tion. He also won the ASME Industrial Gas Turbine Award in 2016 and 11 indi-
viduals ASME Turbo Expo Best Paper awards. Dr. Brun is the chair of the 2020
Supercritical CO 2 Power Cycles Symposium, past chair of the ASME-IGTI
Board of Directors, the ASME Oil & Gas Applications Committee, and ASME
sCO 2 Power Cycle Committee. He is also a member of the API 616 Task Force,
the ASME PTC-10 task force, the Asia Turbomachinery Symposiums Commit-
tee, and the Supercritical CO 2 Symposium Advisory Committee. Dr. Brun is
currently the executive correspondent of Turbomachinery International Maga-
zine and Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Gas Turbines for Power.

Dr. Rainer Kurz, Solar Turbines, San Diego, CA, United States
Dr. Rainer Kurz is the manager, Systems Analysis at Solar Turbines Incor-
porated, in San Diego, California. His organization is responsible for predicting
compressor and gas turbine performance, for conducting application studies,
and for field performance testing. Dr. Kurz attended the Universitaet der Bun-
deswehr in Hamburg, Germany, where he received the degree of a Dr.-Ing. in
1991. He joined Solar Turbines in 1993, and holds his current position since
1995. Dr. Kurz is the past chair of the ASME/IGTI Oil and Gas Applications
Committee, a member of the Gas Machinery Research Council Project Super-
visory Committee, the GMC Conference Organizing Committee, the Texas
A&M Turbomachinery Symposium Advisory Committee, the Asian Turboma-
chinery Symposium Advisory Committee, and the SDSU Aerospace Engineer-
ing Advisory Committee. He was elected ASME Fellow in 2003. He has
authored numerous publications on turbomachinery-related topics, with an
emphasis on compressor applications, dynamic behavior, and gas turbine
operation and degradation. Many of his publications were considered of

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