Action committees make recommendations on specific business matters and other affairs that maintain CI as the leader for the advancement of combustion science. Members of these additional (ad hoc) committees are charged with the responsibility to deliberate solutions and suggest strategies on new issues and opportunities.
Committees that meet on a continuous basis:
June 2023
Simone Hochgreb, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Hideaki Kobayashi, Tohoku University, Japan
S. Mani Sarathy, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
June 2019
Hideaki Kobayashi, Chair, Tohoku University, Japan
Jacqueline O’Connor, Penn State University, United States
Fei Qi, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Raffaele Ragucci, Istituto di Ricerche sulla Combustione, Italy
January 2016
Marcus Aldén, Co-Chair, Lund University, Sweden
Hideaki Kobayashi, Co-Chair, Tohoku University, Japan
Jacqueline O’Connor, Penn State University, United States
Raffaele Ragucci, Istituto di Ricerche sulla Combustione, Italy
June 2015
Marcus Aldén, Co-Chair, Lund University, Sweden
Hideaki Kobayashi, Co-Chair, Tohoku University, Japan
Raffaele Ragucci, Istituto di Ricerche sulla Combustione, Italy
Bin Yang, Tsinghua University, China
Xiaolin Zheng, Stanford University, United States
January 2015
Marcus Aldén, Co-Chair, Lund University, Sweden
Hideaki Kobayashi, Co-Chair, Tohoku University, Japan
Henry Curran, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Raffaele Ragucci, Istituto di Ricerche sulla Combustione, Italy
Bin Yang, Tsinghua University, China
June 2014
Marcus Aldén, Co-Chair, Lund University, Sweden
Hideaki Kobayashi, Co-Chair, Tohoku University, Japan
Henry Curran, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Xiaolin Zheng, Stanford University, United States
Term Ends in 2025
Chloe Dedic, Co- Chair, University of Virginia, United States
Wenting Sun, Co-Chair, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Alison M. Ferris, Princeton University, United States
Akihiro Hayakawa, Tohoku University, Japan
Brandon Rotavera, University of Georgia, United States
Zhandong Wang, University of Science and Technology China, Hefei, China
2017-2020
Patton Allison, Michigan State University, United States
Nicole Labbe, University of Colorado, United States
Mani Sarathy, Chair, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Jennifer Sidey, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2016-2019
Christopher Kliewer, Sandia National Laboratories, United States
Chin Yik Lee, Rolls-Royce, United Kingdom
Michael Mueller, Princeton University, United States
Jackie O’Connor, Pennsylvania State University, United States
Zhuyin Ren, Tsinghua University, China
Zeynep Serinyel, Universite d’Orleans, CNRS, France
Mariano Sirignano, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
2016-2018
Kenneth Brezinsky, Chair, University of Illinois, United States
Derek Dunn-Rankin (Ex officio, Treasurer), University of California, Irvine, United States
Suk Ho Chung, Seoul National University, Korea
Mark Linne, Edinburgh University, United Kingdom
Kaoru Maruta, Tohoku University Institute of Fluid Science, Japan
Mitchell D. Smooke, Yale University, United States
2014-2016
Kenneth Brezinsky, Chair, University of Illinois, United States
Derek Dunn-Rankin, University of California at Irvine, United States
Suk Ho Chung, Seoul National University, Korea
R. Peter Lindstedt, Imperial College, United Kingdom
Kaoru Maruta, Tohoku University Institute of Fluid Science, Japan
2012-2014
Donald Lucas, Chair, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
Kenneth Brezinsky, University of Illinois, United States
Derek Dunn-Rankin, University of California at Irvine, United States
R. Peter Lindstedt, Imperial College, United Kingdom
2010-2012
Donald Lucas, Chair, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
Kenneth Brezinsky, University of Illinois, United States
Derek Dunn-Rankin, University of California at Irvine, United States
R. Peter Lindstedt, Imperial College, United Kingdom
2018-2021
Gautam Kalghatgi, Chair, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Meredith Colket, United Technologies Research Center, United States
Howard Levinsky, DNV GL, Denmark
Viktor Scherer, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Min Xu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
2014-2018
Christof Schulz, Chair, University of Duisberg-Essen, Germany
Meredith Colket, United Technologies Research Center, United States
Gautam Kalghatgi, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
Min Xu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
2022-2024
President: Philippe Dagaut, CNRS, France
Vice President/President-Elect: Hai Wang, Stanford University, United States
Combustion and Flame Editors
–Fokion Egolfopoulos, University of Southern California, United States
–Thierry Poinsot, CNRS, France
PROCI Editors
–Daniel Haworth, Pennsylvania State University, United States
–Terese Lovas, NTNU, Norway
40th Symposium Program Co-Chairs
–Bassam Dally, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
–José L. Torero, University College London, United Kingdom
2020-2022
President: Philippe Dagaut, CNRS, France
Vice President/President-Elect: Hai Wang, Stanford University, United States
Combustion and Flame Editors
–Fokion Egolfopoulos, University of Southern California, United States
–Thierry Poinsot, CNRS, France
PROCI Editors
–Daniel Haworth, Pennsylvania State University, United States
–Terese Lovas, NTNU, Norway
39th Symposium Co-Chairs
–Bénédicte Cuenot, CERFACS, France
–Nils Hansen, Sandia National Laboratories, United States
2018-2020
President: James F. Driscoll, University of Michigan, United States
Vice President/President-Elect: Philippe Dagaut, CNRS, France
Combustion and Flame Editors
–Fokion Egolfopoulos, University of Southern California, United States
–Thierry Poinsot, CNRS, France
PROCI Editors
–Daniel Haworth, Pennsylvania State University, United States
–Terese Lovas, NTNU, Norway
38th Symposium Program Co-Chairs
–Tim Lieuwen, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
–Fei Qi, Shanghai Jia Tong University, China
2016-2018
President: James F. Driscoll, University of Michigan, United States
Vice President/President-Elect: Philippe Dagaut, CNRS, France
Combustion and Flame Editors
–Fokion Egolfopoulos, University of Southern California, United States
–Thierry Poinsot, CNRS, France
PROCI Editors
–Volker Sick, University of Michigan, United States
–Alison S. Tomlin, Leeds University, United Kingdom
37th Symposium Program Co-Chairs
–Heinz Pitsch, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
–Hai Wang, Stanford University, United States
2014-2016
President: Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Vice President/President-Elect: James F. Driscoll, University of Michigan, United States
Combustion and Flame Editors
–Philippe Dagaut, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
–Fokion Egolfopoulos, University of Southern California, United States
PROCI Editors
–Volker Sick, University of Michigan, United States
–Alison S. Tomlin, Leeds University, United Kingdom
36th Symposium Program Co-Chairs
–Peter Glarborg, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
–Assaad Masri, University of Sydney, Australia
2012-2014
President: Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Vice President/President-Elect: James F. Driscoll, University of Michigan, United States
Combustion and Flame Editors
–Philippe Dagaut, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
–Fokion Egolfopoulos, University of Southern California, United States
PROCI Editors
–Volker Sick, University of Michigan, United States
–Alison S. Tomlin, Leeds University, United Kingdom
35th Symposium Program Co-Chairs
–Suk Ho Chung, University of King Abdullah Sience & Technology, Saudi Arabia
–Thierry Poinsot, Institute of Fluid Mechanics of Toulouse, CNRS, France
2010-2012
President: Charles K. Westbrook, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
VP/President Elect: Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus, Bielefeld University, Germany
PROCI Editors
–Philip H. de Goey, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
–Volker Sick, University of Michigan, United States
34th Symposium Program Co-Chairs
–Robert Barlow, Sandia National Laboratories, United States
–Frederique Battin-Leclerc, Université de Lorraine, France
–Kaoru Maruta, Tohoku University Institute of Fluid Science, Japan
María Alzueta, Chair, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Sayaka Suzuki, Vice Chair, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Andrea Strzelec, University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States
W. Jayani Jayasuriya, Oregon State University, United States
Elisa Stendardo, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Benedetta Franzelli, CentraleSupélec, France
Rachel Schwind, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Shruthi Dasappa, Monolith Materials, United States
Federica Ferraro, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
Maryam Yeganeh, Aalto University, Finland
Katerina Sardi, SMRCTECHNIC, Greece
Juyoung Oh, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
Khadijeh Mohri, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Chloe Dedic, University of Virginia, United States
Xizhuo Jiang, Northeastern University, China
Committees that meet only as required:
2020-2022
Jeffrey Bergthorson, McGill University, Canada
Philippe Dagaut, CNRS, France
Bassam Dally, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Jim Driscoll, University of Michigan, United States
Fokion Egolfopoulos, University of Southern California, United States
Osamu Fujita, Hokkaido University, Japan
Dan Haworth, Pennsylvania State University, United States
Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus, Bielefeld University, Germany
Tim Lieuwen, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Terese Løvås, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Kaoru Maruta, Tohoku University, Japan
Assaad Masri, The University of Sydney, Australia
Heinz Pitsch, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Thierry Poinsot, Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, CNRS, France
Fei Qi, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Christof Schulz, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Hai Wang, Stanford University, United States
2018-2020
Frederique Battin-Leclerc, CNRS, France
Chuck Baukal, Oklahoma Baptist University, United States
Mirko Bothien, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Jeff Cohen, University of Connecticut, United States
Jim Driscoll, University of Michigan, United States
Fokion Egolfopoulos, University of Southern California, United States
Osamu Fujita, Hokkaido University, Japan
Peter Glarborg, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Brian Haynes, The University of Sydney, Australia
In-Seuck Jeung, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
Yiguang Ju, Princeton University, United States
Gautam Kalghatgi, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus, Bielefeld University, Germany
Kaoru Maruta, Tohoku University, Japan
Assaad Masri, The University of Sydney, Australia
Keith McManus, GE Aerospace, United States
Hope Michelsen, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
Masato Mikami, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Michael Mueller, Princeton University, United States
Jacqueline O'Connor, Pennsylvania State University, United States
Matthias Olzmann, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Heinz Pitsch, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Thierry Poinsot, Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, CNRS, France
Guillermo Rein, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Mani Sarathy, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Christof Schulz, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Jeffrey Sutton, Ohio State University, United States
Alison Tomlin, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Tamas Turanyi, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Hai Wang, Stanford University, United States
Yuri Wright, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Youngbin Yoon, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
Hai Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
2016-2018
Suk-Ho Chung, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Henry Curran, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Philippe Dagaut, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Jim Driscoll, University of Michigan, United States
Ruud Eggels, Rolls-Royce, Germany
Fokion Egolfopoulos, University of Southern California, United States
Peter Glarborg, Technical University of Denmark, Germany
Brian Haynes, University of Sydney, Australia
Simone Hochgreb, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Stephen Klippenstein, Argonne National Laboratory, United States
Hideaki Kobayashi, Tohoku University, Japan
Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Assaad Masri, Sydney, Australia
Thierry Poinsot, CNRS, France Fei Qi, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Christof Schulz, University of Duisberg-Essen, Germany
Volker Sick, University of Michigan, United States
Allison Tomlin, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
2014-2016
Peter Glarborg, Program Co-Chairs, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Assaad Masri, Program Co-Chairs, University of Sydney, Australia
Marcus Aldén, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
Robert Barlow, Sandia National Laboratories, United States
Sébastien Candel, CNRS, Labratoie EM2C, France
Suk-Ho Chung, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Roger Cracknell, Shell Global Solutions, United Kingdom
Philippe Dagaut, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Mara de Joannon, IRC-CNR, Italy
Jim Driscoll, University of Michigan, United States
Fokion Egolfopoulos, University of Southern California, United States
Brian Haynes, University of Sydney, Australia
Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Howard Levinsky, DNV GL Energy/ University of Groningen, Netherlands
Steve Pope, Cornell University, United States
Christof Schulz, University of Duisberg-Essen, Germany
Hai Wang, Stanford University, United States
Huang Zhen, Shanghai University, China
2012-2014
Suk Ho Chung, Program Co-Chair, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Thierry Poinsot, Program Co-Chair, CNRS, France
Robert Barlow, Sandia National Laboratories, United States
Frédérique Battin-Leclerc, CNRS, France
Jacqueline H. Chen, Sandia National Laboratories, United States
Philip de Goey, Endhoven University, Netherlands
Philippe Dagaut, CNRS, France
James Driscoll, University of Michigan, United States
Fokion Egolfopoulos, University of Southern California, United States
Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Kaoru Maruta, Tohoku University, Japan
Epaminondas Mastorakos, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Paul Ronney, University of California, United States
Volker Sick, University of Michigan, United States
Jose Torero, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Charles Westbrook, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States
Qiang Yao, Tsinghua University, China
2010-2012
Marcus Aldén, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
Brian S. Haynes, University of Sydney, Australia
Hideaki Kobayashi, Tohoku University, Japan
Uwe Riedel, Institut für Verbrennungstechnik, Germany
Nickolai Smirnov, Moscow State University, Russia
Mitch Smooke, Yale University, United States
Piotr Wolanski, Warsaw University of Technology
2018-2021
Jeffrey Bergthorson, Chair, McGill University, Canada
Nabiha Chaumeix, CNRS, France
Henry Curran, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Derek Dunn-Rankin, University of California, United States
Uwe Riedel, DLR-Institute of Low-Carbon Industrial Processes, Germany
Christopher Shaddix, Sandia National Laboratories, United States
Youngbin Yoon, Seoul National University, Korea
2012-2018
Uwe Riedel, Chair, Institut für Verbrennungstechnik, Germany
Jeffrey Bergthorson, McGill University, Canada
Nabiha Chaumeix, CNRS, France
Derek Dunn-Rankin, University of California at Irvine, United States
Shenqyang (Steven) Shy, National Central University, Taiwan
Qiang Yao, Tsinghua University, China
Thierry Poinsot, Chair, Toulouse Institute of Fluid Mechanics, France
Jacqueline H. Chen, Sandia National Laboratories, United States
Osamu Fujita, Hokkaido University, Japan
In-Seuck Jeung, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
Deanna Lacoste, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Araba
Terese Løvås, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Perrine Pepiot, Cornell University, United States
Sayaka Suzuki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
2022
Heinz Pitsch, Chair, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Toshiro Fujimori, IHI Corporation, Japan
Zuohua Huang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
In-Seuck Jeung, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
Yiguang Ju, Princeton University, United States
Perrine Pepiot, Cornell University, United States
Thierry Poinsot, Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse, CNRS, France
Greg Smallwood, National Research Council Canada, Canada
2020
Phillip Westmoreland, Chair, North Carolina State University, United States
Pascale Desgroux, Université de Lille 1: Sciences et Technologies, France
Youngbin Yoon, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
Yiguang Ju, Princeton University, United State
Greg Smallwood, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Heinz Pitsch, Aachen University, Germany
Toshiro Fujimori, IHI Corporation, Japan
Zuohua Huang, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
2018
Mitchell Smooke, Chair, Yale University, United States
Meredith Colket, UTRC (Retired), United States
Pascale Desgroux, Université de Lille 1: Sciences et Technologies, France
Pascale Domingo, CORIA-CNRS, France
Osamu Fujita, Hokkaido University, Japan
Zhuyin Ren, Tsinghua University, China
Christof Schulz, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Phillip Westmoreland, North Carolina State University, United States
Youngbin Yoon, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
2016
Steven Pope, Chair, Cornell University, United States
Pascale Domingo, UMR 6614-CORIA, France
Fokion Egolfopoulos, University of Southern California, United States
Osamu Fujita, Hokkaido University, Japan
Graham Nathan, University of Adelaide, Australia
Zhuyin Ren, Tsinghua University, China
Christof Schulz, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
2014
Philippe Dagaut, Chair, CNRS-INSIS, ICARE, France
Marcos Chaos, FM Global, United States
Andrea D’Anna, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Philip de Goey, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
In-Seuck Jeung, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea
Terese Løvås, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Stephen Pope, Cornell University, United States
Christopher Shaddix, Sandia National Laboratories, United States
Bin Yang, Tsinghua University, China
2012
Brian S. Haynes, Chair, University of Sydney, Australia
Marcus Aldén, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
Melvyn Branch, University of Colorado at Boulder, United States
Jacqueline H. Chen, Sandia National Laboratories, United States
Philippe Dagaut, CNRS Orléans, France
Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
2020
Greg Smallwood, Chair, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Patton Allison, Michigan State University, United States
Bénédicte Cuenot, CERFACS, France
Akihiro Hayakawa, Tohoku University, Japan
Chris Shaddix, Sandia National Laboratories, United States
Renny Tassari, The Combustion Institute, United States
2018
Greg Smallwood, Chair, National Research Council Canada, Canada
Yi Gao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Philip de Goey, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Chris Shaddix, Sandia National Laboratories, United States
Barbara Waronek, The Combustion Institute, United States
Xiaoqing You, Tsinghua University, China
2016
Fei Qi, Chair, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Tina Kasper, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Reginald E. Mitchell, Stanford University, United States
Mani Sarathy, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia
Robert Tranter, Argonne National Laboratory, United States
Barbara Waronek, The Combustion Institute, United States
2014
Simone Hochgreb, Chair, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Scott Goldsborough, Argonne National Laboratory, United States
Mark Linne, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Reggie Mitchell, Stanford University, United States
Zhuyin Ren, Tsinghua University, China
Barb Waronek, The Combustion Institute, United States