Sébastien Candel is university professor emeritus at CentraleSupelec, University of Paris-Saclay. Engineer from the Ecole Centrale Paris, PhD from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), he holds a doctorate in science from the university of Paris 6. His combustion research on flame structures, dynamics and control, turbulent flame modeling and simulation, transcritical combustion of cryogenic propellants, and his fundamental contributions to aeroacoustics have applications in the energy sector and in the field of aeronautical and space propulsion. Among many distinctions, Sébastien Candel received the Marcel Dassault grand prize from the Académie des sciences, the Pendray aerospace literature award from the AIAA, the Zeldovich gold medal of the Combustion Institute. Fellow of the AIAA and of the Combustion Institute, he is a member and former president of the French Academy of Sciences, a founding member of the Academy of Technologies, and a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
Laboratoire EM2C, CNRS
CentraleSupélec
91192 Gif-sur-Yvette
France
James Dawson is Professor of Fluid Mechanics and Deputy Head of Department (for research) of Energy and Process Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Prior to joining NTNU in 2013, EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow at the Department of Engineering at the University Cambridge and Fellow of New Hall (now Murray Edwards College). He received his PhD from Cardiff University, UK. Professor Dawson’s research interests are in the general areas of gas turbine combustion and fluid mechanics. His current research is focused on combustion of zero carbon fuels, namely hydrogen and ammonia, and was recently appointed to the editorial board of Combustion and Flame. He has received a number of awards which include a 5-year Advanced Research Fellow from the EPSRC (UK engineering and physical sciences research council), Garden Award for by the British section of the Combustion Institute (2013), a best paper award from ASME (2021), and a distinguished paper award at the 39th International Combustion Symposium (2022). He also led an EU funded Innovative Training Network (ITN) on annular combustion, ANNULIGhT.
Institute for Energy and Process Engineering
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Strømningsteknisk Kolbjørn Hejesvei 2
Trondheim 7491
Norway
André Fischer is an aerospace engineer with more than 15 years of work experience in industrial and academic environments. He did his PhD at TU-Berlin on laser optical measurement for acoustics in turbomachinery in strong cooperation with the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Institute of Propulsion Technology, Department of Engine Acoustics.
Since 2015 André Fischer is working at Rolls-Royce Deutschland in the combustor development group responsible for thermo-acoustics and combustion noise. In his role, he gathered many experience in experimental work from engine testing to combustor-rig testing at various TRL levels and thermo- acoustic modelling form low order to high fidelity 3D simulations.
Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd Co KG
Eschenweg 11, Dahlewitz
15827 Blankenfelde-Mahlow
Germany
Dr. Fei Han is a senior principal engineer in the area of gas turbine combustion at GE Research. Since joining GE in 1999, Dr. Han has conducted extensive research & development in the area of combustion dynamics, ranging from development of combustion dynamics modeling tools, development and implementation of various dynamics mitigation technologies, and techniques for combustion dynamics experiments for gas turbines, aero engines, and augmentors. He also served as the manager of a combustion team at GE Research from 2011 to 2017, leading a team of engineers and technicians in developing new technologies and maturing technology levels for combustion dynamics and diagnostics. Fei is the author of more than 30 peer-reviewed publications and over 75 GE internal publications, and currently holds 24 US patents. Fei holds a BS and Master degree in Acoustics from Nanjing University, China, and a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, USA.
Niskayuna, New York
United States
Justin Hardi graduated with a double degree in Aerospace Engineering and Physics from the University of Adelaide in Australia, then moved to Germany to work on the topic of combustion instabilities in cryogenic rocket engines at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Space Propulsion, Lampoldshausen. After receiving his PhD in 2012, he went to Purdue University in the US to work as a research associate in the Zucrow propulsion labs. Following this placement, he returned to DLR to lead Combustion Dynamics research team at the Institute of Space Propulsion, conducting experimental and numerical research on ignition, transient flow phenomena, and combustion instabilities. In this role, he led international research collaborations as well as technology development projects for the European Space Agency. In 2020 Dr Hardi became Head of the Rocket Propulsion Technology Department, responsible for R&T activities on cryogenic engine components.
German Aerospace Center
Institute of Space Propulsion
Lampoldshausen
74239 Hardthausen
Germany
Matthew Juniper is Professor of Thermofluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge. He completed his PhD in Cryogenic Combustion from Ecole Central Paris in 2001 and was appointed Lecturer in Combustion at the Engineering Department in 2003. His research interests are in flow instability, adjoint-based sensitivity analysis, shape optimization, and physics-based Bayesian inference, particularly when accelerated with adjoint codes. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Fluid Mechanics and has held visiting fellowships/professorships at Ecole Central Lyon, the Institute for Advanced Studies at TU Munich, KTH/Nordita Stokholm, IIT Madras, and the Center for Turbulence Research Summer Program at Stanford University.
Engineering Department
University of Cambridge
Trumpington Street
Cambridge CB2 1PZ
United Kingdom
Kyutae Kim is an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at KAIST, and EIRC Director for Carbon Neutral Gas Turbine Combustion Technology. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Penn State in 2009. After completion of his PhD, he accepted a Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Cambridge, and then he worked at General Electric, where he contributed to the development of GE’s advanced gas turbine engines, including GE9X and 9HA.01. In 2016, he joined KAIST. His current research efforts focus on (i) combustion instabilities in aircraft and heavy-duty gas turbine combustors, including low- and high-frequency instabilities associated with bulk, longitudinal, and transverse modes; (ii) hydrogen/ammonia-based carbon-free and low-carbon gas turbine combustion, including radial and axial fuel staging concepts; (iii) physics-based and data-driven modeling, including reduced-order modeling, numerical simulations, machine-learning and complex network frameworks.
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Daejeon
South Korea
Deanna Lacoste is an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Engineering (KAUST), in Saudi Arabia. She graduated with a Ph.D. in combustion science from the University of Poitiers, France, in 2002. After eleven years with the French CNRS, at CentraleSupelec, in 2014 she joined KAUST. Since 2021, she has been an associate professor at the Clean Combustion Research Center, KAUST. She is an editorial board member of the Applications in Energy and Combustion Science journal, and an associate editor for the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. Her research mainly focusses on plasma-assisted combustion, non-equilibrium plasma discharges at atmospheric pressure, control of flame dynamics, and detonation.
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Thuwal 23955-6900
Saudi Arabia
