Professor Epaminondas Mastorakos FREng

Hopkinson/ICI Professorship of Applied Thermodynamics, University of Cambridge 

Professor Epaminondas Mastorakos is one of the world’s foremost experts in flames ‘at the limit‘, creating knowledge that has enabled gas turbines for aviation jet engines to operate stably and safely at high altitude, while reducing the damaging emissions they produce. His ground-breaking theoretical developments and novel experiments in turbulent reacting flows have resulted in accurate and effective new design tools for the gas turbine and automotive engine industry, and other energy applications, that have given engineers access to quantitative information on the combustion process that was hitherto unavailable.