Yoann Méry earned his Master’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering from École Centrale Paris (now CentraleSupélec) in 2006. He then pursued a PhD at the EM2C Laboratory under the supervision of Pr. Sébastien Candel and Dr. Sébastien Ducruix, focusing on the acoustic response of transcritical methane/LOx flames. He completed his doctorate in 2010.
That same year, he joined Safran Aircraft Engines, where he specialized in combustion instabilities in aeronautical combustors and contributed to the development of Large Eddy Simulation (LES) tools and emissions prediction methodologies. He played a key role in the development and certification of several combustor designs.
In 2017, he transitioned to the Performance Team, working on full engine modelling and later leading the Performance Modelling Team. Since 2023, he has been heading the Combustor and Afterburner Design Office, overseeing the design of next-generation civil and military aircraft combustors and afterburners.
Since 2016, Yoann has also served as a technical expert representing Safran and ICCAIA at CAEP/ICAO, contributing to the development of international standards for civil aircraft engine emissions.
Wolfgang Polifke
Wolfgang Polifke
Wolfgang Polifke studied physics at the University of Regensburg, the University of Colorado in Boulder and the City College of New York (1981-87). His doctoral thesis dealt with the helicity of turbulent flows (City University of New York, 1990). He then spent almost a decade at ABB’s corporate research center in Baden-Dättwil, Switzerland, working on fundamental aspects of gas turbine combustion technology. In 1999, Prof. Polifke was appointed professor at TUM. His research areas include thermoacoustic combustion instabilities and aeroacoustics as well as mixing and reaction in turbulent flows.
From 2016 to 2021 Prof. Polifke was Editor-in-Chief of the Int'l. J. for Spray and Combustion Dynamics. From 2017 until 2022 he served as Associate Editor on the editorial board of Combustion and Flame. In 2021 he was elected as Fellow of the International Combustion Institute.
Takanori Haga
Takanori Haga
Associate Senior Researcher - Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
Dr. Takanori Haga is an associate senior researcher at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). He received his Ph.D. degree from Tohoku University in 2009. His research interest includes high-order accurate numerical methods for compressible turbulence, combustion and multi-phase flows. His current project focuses on developing a high-fidelity Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) solver for full-scale liquid rocket engines.
Lukasz Panek
Lukasz Panek
Dr. Lukasz Panek is a combustion research engineer at Siemens Energy, specializing in thermo-acoustics and hydrogen combustion.
He obtained his PhD in Computational Aero-Acoustics at the TU Berlin and has been involved in different sub-disciplines of acoustics since the beginning of his academic career.
He joined the large gas turbine division of Siemens in 2012 (Siemens Energy since 2020).
In his work Lukasz is taking part in the entire development process of gas turbine combustion systems. As an expert in thermo-acoustics, he accompanies the design process from the early sketch phase through prototype testing to engine operation.
He has a strong link to academia and enjoys acting as an interface between industry and research institutions. Lukasz is passionate about providing real world challenges to the research world and fostering modern modeling methods at Siemens Energy.
Lukasz's work site is the Berlin gas turbine factory.
Thierry Schuller
Thierry Schuller
Thierry Schuller is a professor at Université de Toulouse (UT) and a researcher at the Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (IMFT). An engineering graduate of École Centrale Paris, he earned his PhD in 2003, specializing in thermoacoustics. He began his career in R&D at Peugeot Citroën before joining the EM2C laboratory and École Centrale Paris, where he served as Associate Professor and later Full Professor. In 2016, he joined IMFT to strengthen and expand experimental research in combustion.
His research focuses on combustion for industrial combustion processes and aeronautical propulsion systems, with a strong emphasis over the past decade on the safe and reliable use of hydrogen as an energy source.
He serves as associate editor of Flow, Turbulence and Combustion (2017) and has received several international distinctions, including the title of Fellow of the Combustion Institute (2021), an ERC Advanced Grant (2022), and appointment to the Institut Universitaire de France (2023).
Nicolas Noiray
Nicolas Noiray
Nicolas Noiray is Associate Professor in the Mechanical and Process Engineering department at ETH Zürich, where he leads the laboratory of Combustion, Acoustics & Flow Physics. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Ecole Centrale Paris in 2007 and then worked in the Gas Turbine Research Division of Alstom until his appointment at ETH in 2014. He has been elected Fellow of the Combustion Institute and received the Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Researcher Award. He was awarded a Consolidator Grant and a Synergy Grant by the European Research Council. A key theme of the research performed by his group is the modeling and control of instabilities at various time and length scales.
