Professor Konduri Aditya works as an Assistant Professor and Acrot Ramachandran Young Investigator in the Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India. Prior to this, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Combustion Research Facility, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, United States. Aditya obtained his doctoral degree in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station. He works broadly in the field of computational fluid dynamics. His current research includes large-scale simulations of turbulent combustion relevant to gas turbines and scramjet engines, algorithms for anomalous/extreme event detection in scientific phenomena, and development of scalable asynchronous numerical methods and simulation algorithms for solving partial differential equations on massively parallel computing systems. He is an executive member of the Combustion Institute-India section. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award 2016, Texas A&M University.

Dr. Fei DUAN is a tenured faculty in School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Dr. Duan obtained his Ph.D. degree in University of Toronto, Canada in 2005. Dr. Duan also worked as a visiting scientist in Institute of Fluid Mechanics at Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. The topics of his research cover droplet phase change dynamics, enhanced thermal management, efficient cogeneration power system, etc. In NTU, Dr. Duan has secured over 14 million Singapore dollars on research funding from the governmental agencies and industries as a principal investigator. He has advised over 28 postdoctoral fellows or research associates, 19 Ph.D. students, and 14 Master's students. Dr. Duan has published over 180 peer-reviewed journal papers, 4 patents, 5 book chapters, and 130 conference presentations including 20 plenary lectures and keynotes. He serves as Subject Editor for Applied Thermal Engineering (Elsevier, Impact Factor: 6.1), at Editorial Board for Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio, Impact Factor: 3.8) and Frontiers in Heat and Mass Transfer (Tech Science Press); and Editor at Large in Droplet (Willy).

Dr. Osamu Fujita is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Hokkaido University. He is involved in research related to Microgravity Combustion, Fire Science, Flame Dynamics of premixed flame, Carbon neutral combustion. He received his B.S. (1982), M.S. (1984) and Ph.D. (1987) from Hokkaido University. He was a visiting professor at University of California at Berkeley (1994). Dr. Fujita has authored over 200 reviewed papers in the area of combustion and microgravity science. He served as a president of the Combustion Society of Japan (CSJ, 2017-2019), a president of Japan Society of Microgravity Application (JASMA, 2017-2021), a vice-president of Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME, 2019-2020). He is now serving as a vice president of the Combustion Institute (CI, 2020-2028) and Program Co-Chair (PCC, 2024-2026) of the 41st International Combustion Symposium. He is a PI of the FLARE project, an international project on fire safety in space promoted by JAXA. He is a recipient of Best Paper Awards of JASMA (2006, 2018) and JSME (2007) and of distinguished paper award of 39th International Combustion Symposium.

Professor Deanna Lacoste graduated with a Ph.D. in combustion science from the University of Poitiers, France, in 2002. She obtained her Habilitation to Direct Research (H.D.R.) from the same university, in 2011. She started to work on plasma physics and on plasma assisted combustion in 2003, at Ecole Centrale Paris (now CentraleSupelec). After eleven years with the French CNRS, at CentraleSupelec, in 2014 she joined the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), in Saudi Arabia. Since 2021, she is an associate professor of mechanical engineering affiliated with the Clean Energy Research Platform. She is an editor of the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, and an editorial board member of the Applications in Energy and Combustion Science and the Progress in Energy and Combustion Science journals. Her research mainly focusses on plasma-assisted combustion, non-equilibrium plasma discharges at atmospheric pressure, control of flame dynamics, and detonation.

Professor Yuyang Li obtained his PhD degree from University of Science and Technology of China in 2010 and is now a professor and a vice dean at School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests include carbon-neutral energy and power, low-carbon combustion technologies for aero-engines and gas turbines, reaction kinetics and fluid dynamics in energy and combustion research, and novel combustion technologies. He has published more than 200 papers and has an H-index of 44 (Web of Science), with more than 100 on Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, Combustion and Flame, and Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. He was elected as a Fellow of The Combustion Institute, selected for the World’s Top 2% Scientists List, and awarded the Research Excellence Award of the Combustion Institute, the Energy and Fuels Rising Star by Energy & Fuels, the China State Natural Science Award (2nd Grade), the China Youth Science and Technology Award, and the Young Investigator Award of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Combustion. He serves or has served as a Colloquium Coordinator of the 40th International Symposium on Combustion, the chair of the 3rd Symposium on Ammonia Energy, a Board Member of the Combustion Section of the Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics, the Editor-in-Chief of Progress in Reaction Kinetics and Mechanism, a Section Editor of Applied Sciences and Journal of Ammonia Energy, and an editorial board member or a youth editor of International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, The Innovation Energy, and Journal of Engineering Thermophysics.

Professor Gus Nathan is a Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Adelaide, a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, the Combustion Institute and Engineers Australia, a recipient of a Discovery Outstanding Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council and an ATSE KH Sutherland medallist. He was the bid leader for, and is now the Research Director of, the national $215m Heavy Industry Low-carbon Transition Cooperative Research Centre, the HILT CRC. This builds on his leadership of an ARENA-funded program to develop technology with strong potential to provide energy to the Bayer alumina process with concentrated solar thermal heat in partnership with Alcoa and Hatch, together with his co-leadership of program to develop innovative hydrogen production technologies within the Future Fuels Cooperative Research Centre. Overall, he has led the development of six technology platforms, three of which are in ongoing commercial use and include the flame for Sydney Olympic Relay Torch, while three are currently being upscaled to decarbonise heavy industry. He has published more than 300 papers in international journals, 250 in peer reviewed conferences, 50 commissioned reports and 13 patents.

Professor Nathan is also the founding chair of the High Temperature Minerals Processing (HiTeMP) Forum and co-founder of the Hydrogen Production Technologies (HyPT) forums, both of which attract some 150 delegates from more than 13 countries, drawn equally from industry, research and government agencies. He is also a joint founder of the international ISF Workshop for the Measurement and Computation of Reacting Flows With Carbon Nanoparticles, which engages some 100 researchers from around the world and is aligned with his own speciality in optical diagnostic methods to de-risk emerging technologies in hydrogen production and heavy industrial processes.

Professor Jeong Park holds a Bachelor degree from Seoul National University (SNU) in 1987 and a Master and a Ph.D from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1990 and 1995, respectively. His research interests include laminar premixed, nonpremixed, and partially premixed flames, wire fire w/o applied electric field, electric field assistant combustion, and emission reduction with applying nonthermal plasma to combustion systems. He was the president of Korean Society of Combustion as well as the Chair of Korean Section of The Combustion Institute (2020-2021). He served on the associate editor of Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology (2013-2019) as well as Journal of The Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers (2010-2015), the editorial board of International Journal of Spray and Combustion Dynamics (2010-present), and the Editor-in-Chief in Journal of The Korean Society of Combustion (2018-2019). He also served on the colloquium co-chair of “Laminar Flames Section” for 38th Int. Symposium on Combustion and “Flame Dynamics and Transport Processes Section” for 40th Int. Symposium on Combustion. He hosted 36th Int. Symposium on Combustion as the Local Program Committee. He was the International steering committee in 12th and 13th ASPACC and the International Organising Committee in 15th and 16th ICCEU. He has published 105 papers in peer reviewed international journals.

Professor Kuang-Chung Tsai is a professor in the Department of Safety, Health and Environmental Engineering, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. He has been involved in fire safety research for more than 25 years after his Ph.D. study at Edinburgh University, UK. HIs research interests include fire dynamics, compartment fire, tunnel fire, fire testing, performance-based fire safety design, etc. He has published over 50 journal articles and is recognized as a 2% Lifetime Impact Scholar by Stanford University's Scholar Impact Rankings. In addition to his academic achievements, he currently serves as the President of the SFPE Taiwan Chapter and the Taiwan Fire Safety Materials Association. Furthermore, the Fire Safety and Evacuation Verification Manual for Buildings, which he edited, has become a key reference for regulatory reviews on fire safety and evacuation in high-rise and large-scale residential buildings in Taiwan. Additionally, he has participated in many fire safety assessments for long tunnels and large-scale stadiums.