(Chair) Professor Derek Bradley is an academic engineer known for his work on instabilities of laminar flames, effects of turbulence on burning rates, origins of auto-ignition and transitions to detonations, he has worked with oil, automotive, and gas turbine companies to develop fuels, engines and turbines with improved efficiencies and reduced carbon. Derek’s honours include the 1992 Alfred C. Egerton Medal of the Combustion Institute for his distinguished contributions to the field of combustion. He received the Huw Edwards Prize of the Institute of Physics and is a triple recipient of the Sugden Prize of the Combustion Institute’s British Section. He was also awarded the Gelfand Medal for promoting scientific cooperation with the Institute’s Russian Section. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Dr Richard Pearson is Technical Advisor - Automotive Engineering at BP. He has spent over 30 years in the area of powertrain research, including as Head of Vehicle Research at Lotus Engineering, and prior to that, as a Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Manchester and as an engineer Ricardo Engineering.  He is the co-author of over 100 refereed technical papers, 5 book chapters and 2 co-authored books. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Bath, was also a Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor, at Brunel University. He is a member of several industry and academic advisory boards including Energy Technologies Institute and Oil and Gas Climate Change Initiative. His interests are in the thermodynamics and gas dynamics of internal combustion engines, as well as alternative fuels and life-cycle analysis and strategy for transport and mobility.

 

Professor Philip Bowen graduated in Pure & Applied Mathematics from the University of Wales in 1986, receiving his PhD degree in modelling complex fluids in 1990. He worked at Shell’s Thornton Research Centre, before joining Cardiff University’s School of Engineering in 1994.  He was appointed Professor of Energy Systems at Cardiff in 2004, and founded Cardiff University’s offsite Gas Turbine Research Centre in collaboration with QinetiQ in 2007, which continues to undertake high-pressure/temperature combustion and fuels related research.  Philip was Cardiff School of Engineering’s first Director of Innovation and Engagement (2008-12) and Director of School (2012-15). He founded and co-directs Cardiff’s Energy Systems University Research Institute (ESURI) (2015-) involving academic research from 10 Schools across all 3 academic colleges. He has attracted (as PI/CI) over £30M research income from over 100 projects during his career, graduated 30 PhD students and published over 200 research papers.  He sits on various national and international strategic advisory committees (such as the IEA) and was formerly a member of the RCUK, has provided advice to various multinationals and governments, and is a Fellow of the IMechE, Institute of Physics – former chair of ‘Combustion Physics’ group - and Learned Society of Wales (FLSW).  

Dr-HdR B. Cuenot tobtained her engineering and master degree from Ecole Centrale de Paris in 1990. After one year as a research engineer in the University of Boulder (CO, USA), she came back to France where she defended her PhD in 1995 and HdR in 2000, both in the field of numerical combustion. She is now the leader of the combustion research group at CERFACS, developing advanced and massively parallel software for the numerical simulation (DNS and LES) of turbulent combustion and heat transfer (including thermal radiation) in industrial systems. With these tools she addresses various topics such as pollutant emissions, ignition and extinction, combustion efficiency or thermal fatigue of combustion chambers. Dr Cuenot teaches combustion and fluid mechanics in various universities and has authored more than 80 peer-reviewed journal papers. She has participated in many collaborative projects at national and international level, and is much experienced in coordinating european projects, mostly financed by the European Commission where she also acts as an expert evaluator. She has been distinguished as a Fellow of the Combustion Institute in 2018 and has been a member of the Editorial Board of Combustion and Flame since 2018.

 

Professor James Turner is Professor of Engines and Energy Systems at the University of Bath.  He has nearly 30 years of experience in the field of internal combustion engines, and is a specialist in the field of spark-ignition combustion, pressure charging, alcohol fuels, and engine concepts. In addition to his specializations, his main area of interest is renewable energy and its application to the transport sector, with particular emphasis on the use of and possibilities afforded by alcohol fuels. He spent over 21 years working at Lotus Engineering, and has also worked at Norton Motorcycles, Cosworth and Jaguar Land Rover.

Dr Jackie H. Chen is a Distinguished Member of technical staff at the Combustion Research Facility of Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California, where she has worked for over 35 years.  She holds a BSc in engineering from Ohio State University, a MS in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and a PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.  She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, for her contributions to the computational simulation of turbulent reacting flows with complex chemistry.  She is a Fellow of the Combustion Institute and recipient of the Bernard Lewis Gold Medal for excellence in combustion research.  Her combustion research focuses on petascale direct numerical simulations (DNS) of turbulent combustion and fundamental turbulence-chemistry interactions. She and her collaborators have discovered new physical insights related to turbulent premixed and stratified flame propagation, preferential diffusion, intrinsic flame instabilities, lifted flame stabilization in (non)heated flows, reactive scalar mixing, compression ignition and flashback in boundary layers.

Mr Andy Jones is currently Innovation Programme Manager and combustion lead at HiETA Technologies Limited, a product design, development, and production SME based in Bristol which exploits additive manufacturing for heat exchangers, turbo machinery, combustion and fuel delivery systems.  He is a Chartered Engineer with the IMechE and earned a Master’s degree from the University of Nottingham in 2007.  Prior to working for HiETA, Andy has worked as a mechanical engineer in a number of roles with companies such as Edwards, Mott MacDonald, and Southern Water, as well as a five year stint working abroad in a multidisciplinary design consultancy in Sydney, Australia.  At HiETA, he is currently responsible for efficiently delivering innovative additive manufactured products that are aligned with board level strategy. He has worked previously on a number of projects incorporating design, FEA, CFD and prototyping of novel recuperated combustion systems for micro gas turbines.  His current interests in combustion science focus on low emission combustion technologies that can be optimized with additive manufacture, for example reacting and non-reacting CFD model development, thermal management in micro gas turbines, managing university research partnerships, novel combustor geometries, IP development, and additive manufacture process optimization.