Jim Driscoll, current CI President (2016-2020), Wang Han, Xinyan Huang, Luca Magri, Wenyu Sun, Chris Reuter, and Peng Zhao at the 37th International Symposium on Combustion in Dublin, Ireland

In this seventh and final installment of a seven-part series of articles, The Combustion Institute recognizes combustion scientists who were honored with medals and awards during the 37th International Symposium on Combustion. Wang Han, Xinyan Huang, Luca Magri, Chris Reuter, Wenyu Sun, and Peng Zhao are the 2018 recipients of the Bernard Lewis Fellowship, established to encourage high quality research in combustion by young scientists and engineers.

Wang Han is a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute for Simulation of reactive Thermo-Fluid Systems at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. In 2017, he earned his Ph.D. in Fluid Dynamics from Peking University, China. Currently he is developing higher order flamelet models for non-premixed combustion.

Xinyan Huang is an assistant professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2016 from Imperial College London, United Kingdom. He is interested in the computational and experimental study of the chemistry, heat-transfer, and mass-transfer mechanisms in smoldering combustion of peat.

Luca Magri is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. His position is supported by a Research Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Hans Fischer Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study at Technische Universität Munchen, Germany. Luca brings concepts from chaos theory and hydrodynamic stability analysis to thermoacoustic instabilities.

Chris Reuter is completing his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, United States. He is one of the pioneering students in the study of “cool flame” and “warm flame”.  His innovative thinking and research are leading to new discoveries and advancements in this area.

Wenyu Sun received her Ph.D. from Tsinghua University, China in 2018 and will begin a postdoctoral position in Orléans, France in August.  Her research interests include combustion kinetics of oxygenated fuels; exploring crucial fuel-specific reaction pathways and unraveling potential interplays among the reaction network of fuel mixtures under combustion conditions.

Peng Zhao received his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2015 at Princeton University, United States. He is Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Oakland University, Michigan, United States.  He is building a program in kinetics and experiments, emphasizing low temperature hydrocarbon kinetics, NTC behavior and ignition phenomena.

Please join The Combustion Institute in congratulating the Bernard Lewis Fellowship recipients, and the other honored 2018 award winners in the international combustion community. Questions regarding awards may be directed to: Office@CombustionInstitute.org.