BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Luc-Sy TRAN is currently a Research Scientist at CNRS, working within the PC2A Laboratory (UMR 7275) at the University of Lille, France. His research focuses on the combustion chemistry of advanced biofuels and the formation of heavy pollutant compounds during biofuel combustion.

Dr. Tran earned his Engineering Diploma in Propulsion and Thermal Engines from Da Nang University of Science and Technology, Vietnam, and completed his MSc degree in Thermal and Energy from INSA-Lyon, France. He received his PhD in Process Engineering and Products from the University of Lorraine, France, with his doctoral research conducted at LRGP-CNRS-Nancy under the guidance of Dr. P. A. Glaude and Dr. F. Battin-Leclerc in 2013. Following this, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at LCT-Ghent, Belgium, with Prof. K. Van Geem in 2014. He was later awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship to perform research in Prof. K. Kohse-Höinghaus’s group at the Department of Chemistry, Bielefeld University, Germany. His extensive experience includes conducting several experimental campaigns at NSRL (Hefei, China), NSRRC (Hsinchu, Taiwan), and the SOLEIL Synchrotron (GIF-sur-YVETTE, France).

Dr. Tran has received numerous accolades, including a Bernard Lewis Fellowship from the Combustion Institute in 2016, and two multiannual grants from CNRS for scientific excellence in 2018 and 2023. He has published valuable experimental data measured in different reactors and has proposed about 10 validated combustion mechanisms for oxygenated biofuels to the combustion community. Additionally, he currently serves on the Editorial Board for Progress in Reaction Kinetics and Mechanism.

Personal Links:

https://pro.univ-lille.fr/luc-sy-tran

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Tran has published about 40 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and 8 conference articles. He performed about 70 conferences presentations and has an H-index of 21 (Google Scholar). His ten selected articles are as below:

1. Kanika Sood, Sylvie Gosselin, Abderrahman El Bakali, Alessandro Faccinetto, Pascale Desgroux, Kevin M. Van Geem, Laurent Gasnot, and Luc-Sy Tran. 2024. Quantitative investigation of the formation of oxygenated aromatics in an anisole-doped flame. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 40, 1: 105289.

2. Kanika Sood, Sylvie Gosselin, Mehrdad Seifali Abbas-Abadi, Nathalie De Coensel, Juan-Carlos Lizardo-Huerta, Abderrahman El Bakali, Kevin M. Van Geem, Laurent Gasnot, and Luc-Sy Tran. 2024. Experimental detection of oxygenated aromatics in an anisole-blended flame. Energy & Fuels 38, 7: 6355–6369.

3. Luc-Sy Tran, Olivier Herbinet, Hans-Heinrich Carstensen, and Frédérique Battin-Leclerc. 2022. Chemical kinetics of cyclic ethers in combustion. Progress in Energy and Combustion Science 92: 101019.

4. Juan-Carlos Lizardo-Huerta, Sonia Taamalli, Kanika Sood, Laurent Gasnot, Florent Louis, Abderrahman El Bakali, and Luc-Sy Tran. 2022. Thermochemical and kinetic studies of H-abstraction reaction of benzofurans and benzodioxins by H-atoms. Computational and Theoretical Chemistry 1209: 113589.

5. Luc-Sy Tran, Hans-Heinrich Carstensen, Kae Ken Foo, Nathalie Lamoureux, Sylvie Gosselin, Laurent Gasnot, Abderrahman El-Bakali, and Pascale Desgroux. 2021. Experimental and modeling study of the high-temperature combustion chemistry of tetrahydrofurfuryl alcohol. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 38, 1: 631–640.

6. Luc-Sy Tran, Julia Wullenkord, Yuyang Li, Olivier Herbinet, Meirong Zeng, Fei Qi, Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus, and Frédérique Battin-Leclerc. 2019. Probing the low-temperature chemistry of di-n-butyl ether: Detection of previously unobserved intermediates. Combustion and Flame 210: 9–24.

7. Luc-Sy Tran, Julia Pieper, Meirong Zeng, Yuyang Li, Xiaoyuan Zhang, Wei Li, Isabelle Graf, Fei Qi, and Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus. 2017. Influence of the biofuel isomers diethyl ether and n-butanol on flame structure and pollutant formation in premixed n-butane flames. Combustion and Flame 175: 47–59.

8. Luc-Sy Tran, Ruben De Bruycker, Hans-Heinrich Carstensen, Pierre-Alexandre Glaude, Fabiola Monge, María U. Alzueta, Roberto C. Martin, Frédérique Battin-Leclerc, Kevin M. Van Geem, and Guy B. Marin. 2015. Pyrolysis and combustion chemistry of tetrahydropyran: Experimental and modeling study. Combustion and Flame 162, 11: 4283–4303.

9. Luc-Sy Tran, Baptiste Sirjean, Pierre-Alexandre Glaude, Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus, and Frédérique Battin-Leclerc. 2015. Influence of substituted furans on the formation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in flames. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute 35, 2: 1735–1743.

10. Luc-Sy Tran, Baptiste Sirjean, Pierre-Alexandre Glaude, René Fournet, and Frédérique Battin-Leclerc. 2012. Progress in detailed kinetic modeling of the combustion of oxygenated components of biofuels. Energy 43, 1: 4–18.