Christian Hasse is Professor at the University of Technology Freiberg (Chair of Numerical fluid dynamics) and the head of the research group "Reacting flow systems" of the Virtuhcon (Virtual High Temperature Conversion) project.
He completed his PhD in 2004 on multidimensional flamelet modeling in engines at RWTH Aachen. After graduation he joined BMW working on various engine development aspects such as LES of internal engine flows, NOx and knock modelling, exhaust aftertreatment as well as development of real-time combustion models for engine calibration.

His research focus in Freiberg is the 3D CFD simulation of high-temperature conversion processes using multi-scale models for turbulence-chemistry interaction under partial oxidation conditions. Areas of applications are e.g. gasification of coal, heavy oils and natural gas.

Luc Vervisch is Professor at the National Institute of Applied Science of Normandy and researcher at the CNRS laboratory CORIA. He completed a Ph.D in 1991 at Laboratoire National d’Hydraulique in Chatou, followed by a Post-Doc at Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University and became in 2003 junior member of Institut Universitaire de France.

He uses Direct Numerical Simulation (DNS) to understand laminar and turbulent flames. He also contributes to the development of sug-grid scale closures for Large Eddy Simulation (LES) and Reynolds Average Navier Stokes (RANS) computations. Burners, aeronautical and internal engines are the main targets of those studies. Luc Vervisch is co-Editor of the journal Flow Turbulence and Combustion.

Dominique Thévenin is Professor at the University of Magdeburg "Otto von Guericke" since 2002 and the head of the local research Institute of Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynamics. He completed his PhD in 1992 on flame stabilization in high-speed flows at the Ecole Centrale Paris. He then joined the group of Prof. Warnatz at the Univ. of Heidelberg to develop simulation tools for turbulent flames involving a full description of chemistry and transport processes.

His main research focus in Magdeburg is on turbulent multiphase and/or reacting flows, using both numerical tools like Direct Numerical Simulations and experimental measurements (LIF, PIV, PTV...). Numerical flow optimization relying mainly on Evolutionary Algorithms is his other major activity.