COMMISSIONS OF TRUST 

  • From 10/2024-present: Member of the Editorial Board for the journal Progress in Reaction Kinetics and Mechanism. https://www.maxapress.com/experts/5/Luc-Sy_TRAN ;
  • 2014-present: Referee for many rank A journals.
  • 03/10/2024: Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemical Engineering 2024 (GSCE 2024), Hanoi, Vietnam.
  • 04/2024: Member of the 2024 Bernard Lewis Fellowship Committee for the 40th International Symposium on Combustion.
  • 2022-2024: Member of the thesis monitoring committee (Comité de suivi de these, CSI) of 1 PhD student at UCCS UMR 8181, 3 PhD student at LRGP UMR 7274.
  • 07/11/2023: Jury for auditions of IRePSE proposals 2024.
  • 30/09/2019 and 22/10/2019: Reviewer and jury for doctoral thesis defenses of a PhD student at Ghent University, Belgium.
  • 18/06/2021: Member of the jury for BTS defenses, Lycée de l’Escaut, Valenciennes.
  • 28/05/2021: External reviewer and president of the jury for the Master defense of J. DEBLEZA, University of Lorraine.
  • 10/01/2019: Examiner for a doctoral thesis at University of Lorraine, France.
  • 25/01/2019: External reviewer for a doctoral thesis of the University of Zaragoza, Spain.
  • 3-6/12/2018: Session co-chair for the plenary meeting of GDR SUIE, Atelier Thématique «Séparation Phases Gazeuse / Particulaire de l’Aérosol », Lille, France.
  • 24/04/2017: Session co-chair of the international workshop on “Gas-phase reaction kinetics of biofuels oxygenated molecules”. Organized by SMARTCATS COST Action and European project IMPROOF.
  • 01/2012-01/2013: Elected member of the Council of the Doctoral School Ressources Procédés Produits Environnement, RP2E (Nancy, France). (In France, a Doctoral school is an educational structure similar in focus to a graduate school but restricted to PhD level).
  • 17/01/2013: Jury member for poster prize during the annual seminar of the Doctoral School RP2E.
  • 15/11/2012: One of 5 organizers of the “new PhD Students’ Day” of the Doctoral School RP2E.
  • 2014-present:  Referee for International Symposium on Combustion and rank A journals (Combustion and Flame, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Fuel, Energy Fuels, International Journal of Chemical Kinetics, etc.). About 1 paper reviewed every month. 

CONTRIBUTION TO SUPERVISION

  • 2023-2026: A PhD student at PC2A-CNRS-Uni. Lille (France).
  • 2023: An internship of a BTS student (from Lycée GUSTAVE EIFFEL, Armentières) at PC2A-CNRS-Uni. Lille (France).
  • 2023: An internship of a Master student at PC2A-CNRS-Uni. Lille (France).
  • 2023: Stage d’observation d’un élève en 3ème du collège Théodore Monod Lesquin.
  • 2022: An internship of a BTS student (from Lycée GUSTAVE EIFFEL, Armentières) at PC2A-CNRS-Uni. Lille (France).
  • 2022: An internship of a Master student at PC2A-CNRS-Uni. Lille (France).
  • 2021-2024: A PhD student at PC2A-CNRS-Uni. Lille (France).
  • 2021-2022: An internship of a Master student at PC2A-CNRS-Uni. Lille (France).
  • 2020-2023: A PhD student at PC2A-CNRS-Uni. Lille (France).
  • 2020: An internship of a Master student at PC2A-CNRS-Uni. Lille (France).
  • 2019: An internship of a BTS student at PC2A-CNRS-Uni. Lille (France).
  • 2015: An exchange PhD student at the PC1-University of Bielefeld (Germany). 
  • 2015: A Master student at the University of Bielefeld (Germany). 
  • 2012-2013: Two exchange PhD students at the LRGP-CNRS (France).  
  • 2008: Two final-year projects of two students of the Da Nang University of Technology (Vietnam).

SCIENCE POPULARIZATION

  • 13-15/2022: Participation au Festival du CNRS 2022 à Cambrai, France.
  • 02-05/10/2021: Fête de la science Hauts-de-France 2021. Démonstration des travaux de recherche sur le feu et l’air.
  • 08/10/2020: Fête de la science Hauts-de-France 2020. Démonstration des travaux de recherche sur l’air habitat auprès les élèves du collège Mendes France, Tourcoing, France.
  • 23/05/2019: Démonstration des travaux de recherche sur des biocarburants au collégiens et lycéens (projet CLIMIBIO)
  • 19-20/05/2011: Presentation of the performed research works to pupils at the Elementary School Bulgnéville, as part of the Experimentarium set up by the school RP2E.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • 2015-2016: Assistant teacher at the Bielefeld University (Germany): Co-director of the course “Combustion modeling” 120 hours (lectures + tutorials + exercises); 50 hours of the course “physical chemistry, practical specialization” on combustion calorimetry; 2 hours as a tutor for exercises on catalysis.
  • 2004-2008: Laboratory teacher at the Da Nang University of Technology (Vietnam): 56 hours lectures + exercises of the course “Hydraulics-Pneumatics”;  440 hours practical works of the module “Basic internship” (thermal engines); 600 hours practical works of the module “Specialized internship: Engines-Fuels”.

PARTICIPATION TO RESEARCH NETWORKS

  • 2012-Present: Member of the Combustion Institute (CI), the most authoritative international academic organization in the combustion field. Also member of the Germany and France Sections of the CI.
  • 2014-Present: The Humboldt Foundation Network.
  • 2015-2019: SMARTCATS COST Action, a Europe-wide network of leading academic and research institutions and key industries to promote the use of smart energy carriers on a large scale.