Including calls for papers and nominations, CI awards, highlights of past events, and more

Call for Nominations: 2026 Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Researcher Award 

The Call for Nominations for the eleventh annual Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Researcher Award has been released. Co-sponsored by Elsevier and The Combustion Institute, the award recognizes up to two early career researchers who have made a significant contribution to advance their field of research within four to ten years of completing their doctoral degree or equivalent. Nominations must be received by 21 November 2025 through the CI's website. 

Highlights from the 2025 Tsinghua-Princeton-Combustion Institute Summer School

The 2025 Tsinghua-Princeton-CI Summer School on Combustion was held on the campus of Tsinghua University, China from 6-12 July 2025. This year, the Combustion Institute-Summer School (CI-SS) invited several renowned professors from the field of combustion to deliver lectures. Read more here.

Welcoming the Peru Section of The Combustion Institute

The CI is pleased to welcome our 37th Section. Led by Chair, Cesar Celis, our members in Peru have united to form the newest section of The Combustion Institute. Peruvian members have a rich history of participation in CI events, including previous CI-Summer Schools in Brazil and Chile, and publications in many scientific journals. With the creation of the Peruvian Section of the CI, they hope to promote the development and implementation of technologies to achieve emission reduction and increase the visibility of combustion research-related work. We are proud to be assisting the section with the creation of their website, logo, and section branding. 

40 Under 40 Lecture Series

The Belgian Section of the CI continues to hold installments of their successful 40 Under 40 Lecture Series. Each 50-minute session is held via Zoom and aims to highlight 40 young scientists and engineers who have done high-quality research in combustion. An archive of previous sessions can be viewed on YouTube. 

Questions or proposals to serve as the featured speaker for a future session should be sent to Prof. Salvatore lavarone at salvatore.iavarone@ulb.be.

Women in Combustion Mentorship Program

The Women in Combustion Advisory Committee (WiCAC) launched their mentorship program on 1 October 2025. The program aims to build connections and resources for early and mid-career professionals in the combustion field. Currently, women from over 15 countries are participating in the program. If you are interested in participating or want more information, click here.

Combustion Institute - British Section awards members

The British Section of The Combustion Institute (CIBS) held their Annual General Meeting at the Early Career Forum on Combustion, led by the Institute of Physics and co-sponsored by the CIBS. Three key prizes were presented to CIBS members during the meeting, recognizing a number of members. Read more here.

Assembling a list of upcoming CI and CI-affiliated events

The main goal of the 3rd Asia-Pacific Combustion Institute Summer School is to introduce the combustion and fire safety community to fundamental combustion problems, focusing on studies of diffusion flames and their connection to large-scale fires. This edition will be held from 2-7 November 2025, and will be hosted by the Chile Section of The Combustion Institute. The program will emphasize the link between combustion theory and practical applications in both industrial settings and real fire scenarios, contributing to create and strengthen the links between different academic institutions and research groups focused in the Asia Pacific and South American areas. Learn more here.

The Combustion Institute, Scandinavian-Nordic Section (CINS), Swedish Flame Research Committee (SFRC), and Finnish Thermal Energy Research Association (FTERA) are pleased to announce that the Nordic Flame Days 2025 will take place on the 26th and 27th of November in Copenhagen, Denmark. A CINS topical meeting on carbon capture and utilization in energy systems, will be arranged during the Nordic Flame Days 2025. Visit the event website for more information.

The first annual combustion meeting of the Singapore Section of the CI (SSCI) will be held on 9 December 2025, at the LT6, National University of Singapore. The theme of the meeting is "Power a Net-Zero and Sustainable Future" and will feature technical sessions for oral presentations and a poster session to highlight major research achievements and emerging trends within our community. More information is available on the SSCI website.

Providing updates about the upcoming International Symposium on Combustion

The 41st International Symposium on Combustion (ISOC) will be held in Kyoto, Japan from 26-31 July 2026. Both the Local Host Team and the Technical Program Co-Chairs are hard at work to plan an exceptional event. Visit the Symposium website to current on all updates and information.

41st ISOC Invited Lecturers Announced

The 41st ISOC Program Co-Chairs Osamu Fujita and Venkat Raman have assembled an  impressive slate of Invited Speakers to present plenary lectures during the Symposium. The Hottel Lecture will be delivered on Monday morning by Professor William H. Green from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For more information on the other lecturers and their topics, visit the Symposium website. 

Submissions Now Open for the 41st ISOC

The portal for submissions to the 41st International Symposium on Combustion (ISOC) is open for submissions through 12 November 2025, 23:59 PST. Completed manuscripts must be format-compliant and submitted through the Microsoft Conference Management Toolkit (CMT). Instructional documents and a video on the use of Microsoft CMT can be found here. Formatting instructions and guidelines, as well as updated templates and sample papers are available for your assistance on the 41st ISOC website and on the CI website for those unable to access a Wix website.

Important Information for Authors Submitting to the 41st ISOC

Papers submitted for consideration for the 41st ISOC will undergo an initial technical check. Papers that do not comply with the formatting guidelines will be rejected without further review or revision, and withdrawn from consideration.

Authors submitting to the Symposium must use the templates provided on the Symposium website and follow the instructions precisely. 

• Strict page limit and two-column format
• No line numbers
• No supplementary materials
• No abstracts or extended abstracts - must be full scientific paper

Highlighting combustion resources and the accomplishments of CI members

CI Board of Directors member, Kelly Senecal, was named a 2025 Luminary Award winner by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Alumni Association. The award recognizes alumni who “serve as aspirational examples for others through their accomplishments in the areas of leadership, discovery, progress, and service." Read more here.

CI member, Prof Yiguang Ju was named among the top 100 innovators of the year by R&D World Magazine. Read more here.

Twelve authors, including CI's Christian Hasse and Ruud Eggels, have received First Prize in the Publications category at the Rolls-Royce Deutschland Innovation Awards 2025. The paper brought together a wide range of collaborators and was presented at the ASME Turbo Expo. Read more here.

CI member, Pinaki Pal, received the ASME's 2025 Internal Combustion Engine Division Early Career Award for "significant contributions to the internal combustion engine community." Pal was also honored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), being named a member of the Class of 2026 Associate Fellows.

Tao Li was named an "Athene Young Investigator (AYI)" by TU Darmstadt. The AYI Program was designed to promote the scientific independence of early career researchers by leading an independent junior research group. More information can be found here.

Abhishek Saha has been elected to the Class of Associate Fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Dr. Saha was recognized "for outstanding contributions to combustion and multiphase flow, advancing fundamental understanding in propulsion and power generation technologies." More information can be found here.

Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, will hold a Valedictory Lecture featuring Prof. Philip de Goey on 12 December 2025. The lecture series allows professors who have been accorded emeritus status an opportunity to present a valedictory lecture. Several other lecturers will speak throughout the program, culminating in de Goey's lecture entitled "Towards a New Iron Age."

CI member and Program Co-Chair for CI's 41st International Symposium on Combustion, Venkat Raman has been appointed as the James Arthur Nicholls Collegiate Professor of Engineering by the University of Michigan. The five-year renewable title recognizes Prof Raman's "outstanding contributions towards research and leadership in the field of propulsion, specifically in the development of computational models for turbulent and high-speed reacting flows." Read more here.