"Combustion is responsible for 80% of our current energy supply and will remain to be extremely important in future due to its extremely high power-density. However, the fuels will shift more and more from fossils to sustainable fuels like biofuels, solar fuels and metal fuels.
To understand the underlying physical and chemical processes and to control them in such a way that the processes are ultra-clean and highly efficient is highly motivating"

Philip de Goey is Full Professor of Combustion Technology in the Power & Flow section of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at TU/e. His areas of expertise include combustion science, technology and innovation, energy, thermo-fluids and heat transport technology. From 1988 to 1995, he was Assistant Professor and from 1995-2000 he was Associate Professor of combustion science in the Section Energy Technology at the Mechanical Engineering Department of the TU/e. 

Philip is active and well-known for numerical and experimental research in the field of laminar flames, turbulent flames, engines, gas turbines, flame thermo-acoustics, etc. The two most important achievements for which the chair is known are the invention of:

I) The Heat Flux Method, one of the most accurate methods known for measuring adiabatic burning velocities and used by at least 12 other groups in the world, which will be extended to metal fuels within the current project

II) The FGM method, a very efficient and accurate combustion modeling technique, also well recognized in the combustion community worldwide and also used by more than 30 groups/industries over the world.

Philip de Goey studied Theoretical Physics at Radboud University, Nijmegen and received his PhD from the Department of Physics of the TU/e for his thesis 'Collision Phenomena in a Quantum Gas'. From 1999-2000 he was Visiting Professor at the Institut fur Technische Mechanik (Prof. Norbert Peters) at the RWTH-Aachen, Germany.

Philip has been chairman of the Dutch Section of the Combustion Institute, chairman of the platform 'Clean and Efficient Combustion' of the Dutch Technology Foundation STW-SZV and program leader of the STW perspectief program Clean Combustion Concepts (2008-date). He has previously acted as Associate Editor and Editor of the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Coordinator and Colloquium Co-Chair of the colloquium on 'Laminar Flames' at the 31st and 32nd (Int.) Symposium on Combustion. Philip has (co-)authored over 400 scientific publications and is a scientific committee member of 10 international conferences.  

• Board of project leaders of research schools JMBC and OSPT
• Member of ENGITECH scientific committee for the Engineering Sciences of  ‘Science Europe‘ (European NWO) to prepare and develop policy and programs for the Horizon2020, 2012-2016
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the engineering school of Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, 2011-date
• Member of the scientific advisory board OWI AG, Aachen Germany, since 2007
• Member Europe Turbine Group (ETN), since 2007
• Management member of the International “Combustion Institute“, the international scientific community on Combustion: member of several committees, such as program committee 212-2014, editorial committee & nominations committee, Silver Medal Committee 2014-2016, New initiatives and Awards committee 2014-2016), since 2010.
• Member of the Board of Directors of the Combustion Institute, 2004 -2016.
• Officer of the Board of Directors of the Combustion Institute: Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, 2016-2020.

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