CONTRIBUTION TO SUPERVISION (from 2019)

Observation internships: 

  •  2023-2025: Hosted 2 observation internships (A. FURLAN, Lycée Faidherbe Lille; N. BAZIN, collège Théodore Monod Lesquin).

BTS (Brevet de technicien supérieur) internships:

  • 2019-2024: Three BTS internships: Maxime SKIBINSKI from Lycée de l’Escaut, Valenciennes, Romain LABOURE and Léo DELCAMBRE from Lycée GUSTAVE EIFFEL, Armentières.

Master 2 internships:  

  • 02/2023-06/2023: Student: Mohammad ISSA. Subject: Chemical kinetics of oxygenates during biofuel combustion.
  • 02/2022-06/2022: Student: Sabah MOSTAFA. Subject: Kinetic model of 4-5-heavy atom saturated cyclic ethers.
  • 11/2021-03/2022: Student: Brahim SOKKAH. Subject: Combustion chemistry of 3-heavy atom saturated cyclic ethers.
  • 02/2020-06/2020: Student: Kanika SOOD. Subject: Combustion chemistry of biofuels and aromatic formation.

PhD Thesis: 

  • 10/2025-present: Student: Muhammad BUTT. Subject: Biogas combustion with contaminants. Funded by ED SMRE.
  • 10/2023-present: Student: Mohammad ISSA. Subject: Oxycombustion chemistry of biomass’s tar surrogates. Funded by PEPR “OXY3C” project. 
  • 10/2021-07/2025: Student: Doha KDOUH. Subject: Impact of oxygenated fuels on pollutant emissions in the flame conditions of gasoline surrogates. Funded by ARN “OFELIE” project.
  • 10/2020-12/2023: Student: Kanika SOOD. Subject: Formation of OPAHs and small soot during the combustion of lignin-based biofuels. Funded by ADEME/HdF. 
  • Post-doc: 
  • 01/2021-09/2022: Post-doctoral fellow: Dr. Juan-Carlos LIZARDO-HUERTA. Subject: Kinetics of OPAHs/PAHs. Funded by I-ISITE “BIOFUEL-SOOT” project.

 

SCIENCE POPULARIZATION

  • 2020-present: Participation in 5 Fêtes de la Science organized by Hauts-de-France (2020, 2021), CNRS (2022, 2023) and University of Lille (2025).
  • 2022: Career Day at Collège Théodore Monod in Lesquin (18/03/2022). Presentation of a researcher’s activities.
  • 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.

 

COMMISSIONS OF TRUST 

Board member: 

  • 04/2025-present: Member of the PC2A Laboratory Council since April 2025.
  • 2024-present: Editorial Board Member for the journal Progress in Reaction Kinetics and Mechanism. 
  • 2012-2013: Elected member of the Council of the Doctoral School Ressources Procédés Produits Environnement, RP2E, Nancy, France.

Combustion Institute:

  • 2026: Organization committee for 2026 Combustion School of the Groupement Français de Combustion (GFC).
  • 04/2024: Bernard Lewis Fellowship Committee Member for the 40th Symposium on Combustion.

Jury member:

  • 2021-2024: Member of 4 thesis monitoring committees (Comité de suivi de thèse, CSI) at Uni. Lille and Uni. Lorraine.
  • 07/11/2023: Member of the jury for IRePSE 2024 proposal auditions, University of Lille, France.
  • 18/06/2021: Member of the jury for BTS defenses, Lycée de l’Escaut, Valenciennes, France
  • 28/05/2021: External reviewer and president of the jury for the Master defense of J. DEBLEZA, University of Lorraine, France.
  • 2019-2026: PhD defense jury: Nicolas VIN (University of Lorraine, France, 2019), Muralikrishna V. KHANDAVILLI (Ghent University, Belgium, 2019), Timothée FAGES (Uni. Lorraine, 2025), Lucas RICHARDET (Uni. Orléans, 2026).
  • 2019: External reviewer for PhD thesis of Lorena MARRODÁN BRETÓN (University of Zaragoza, Spain, 2019).

Scientific committee for conference: 

  • 03/10/2024: International Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemical Engineering 2024 (GSCE 2024), Hanoi University of Mining and Geology, Vietnam. 

Co-chair for conferences: 

  • 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, Milan, Italy. 

Referee for journals and projects:

  • 2014-2026: Referee for ANR project and for International journals (Combustion and Flame, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Fuel, Energy Fuels, etc.). About 1 paper reviewed every two months. 

 

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.