Dirk Roekaerts

Background

About Dirk Roekaerts

Dirk Roekaerts is emeritus professor of Delft University of Technology. He has been full professor in TU Delft since 2005 and part-time professor from 1991 until 2005. He was part-time professor at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) from May 2016 until April 2022. In 2021 he was elected Fellow of the Combustion Institute.He obtained his PhD in Theoretical Physics from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium in 1981. Next, during his civil service, he was responsible for organization of activities on ‘Science, Technology and Society’. As a Postdoc Researcher at the Universities of Essen, Germany, and Leuven, Belgium, he went on to investigate links between nonlinear phenomena, supersymmetry and stochastic processes. From 1987 to 2005 he was a Research Physicist at the Shell Research and Technology Centre in Amsterdam, investigating complex flows in industrial equipment such as furnaces, gasifiers and chemical reactors. His main fields of research activity are turbulent combustion and radiative heat transfer. He is expert in modeling of turbulence-chemistry interaction. Most recently he has been investigating combustion of hydrogen and thermal processing of biomass.