Francesco Contino received his degree in electro-mechanical engineering from the Universite catholique de Louvain in 2006. He has spent one year learning Chinese in Nankai University, Tianjin, China. He then performed his Ph.D. thesis between 2007 and 2011 as a Research Fellow of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - FNRS. In 2011-2012, he was in post-doc at Universite d'Orleans. Since October 2012, he is Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is member of the board of the Belgian Automotive Engineers (www.ubia.be) and Secretary of the Belgian Section of the Combustion Institute (www.combustioninstitute.org). Since January 2015, he chairs the Joint Research Group Burn to...