Representative of the Gold Medal Selection Committee Assaad Masri (Left) and Former CI President Philippe Dagaut (Right), present the 2024 Ya. B. Zeldovich Gold Medal to Heinz Pitsch (Middle) during the 40th International Symposium – Emphasizing Energy Transition.
In this third installment of a series of articles, The Combustion Institute recognizes combustion scientists who were honored with medals and awards during the 40th International Symposium – Emphasizing Energy Transition. Heinz Pitsch (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) is the 2024 recipient of the Ya. B. Zeldovich Gold Medal, “for exceptional contributions to combustion research, in particular to large-eddy simulation, flamelet methods and combustion chemistry.” The Ya. B. Zeldovich Gold Medal recognizes outstanding contributions to theories of combustion.
Prof. Heinz Pitsch is a Professor at RWTH Aachen University and has been the Director of the Institute for Combustion Technology at RWTH Aachen University since 2010. He has been both Assistant and Associate Professor at Stanford University from 2003 – 2013, after receiving his Ph.D. from RWTH Aachen University in 1998 and holding post-doctoral positions at the University of California, San Diego and Stanford University. His main research interests are in the fields of combustion theory, combustion chemistry, turbulence, and multi-phase flows with application to technical combustion systems. Prof. Pitsch has published over 200 papers in archival journals and is presently the Chair of the German Section of the Combustion Institute and co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Applications in Energy and Combustion Science. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of The Combustion Institute, and has received several prestigious awards, such as the Advanced Grant of the European Research Council and the International Award of the Japanese Combustion Society.
Please join The Combustion Institute in congratulating Prof. Pitsch and the other award winners honored at the 40th International Symposium. Questions regarding awards may be directed to: office@combustioninstitute.org.