17.10.2025
We had the ICNC in Roma, where I presented two talks (RF-PINNs and LES of flashback in H2 flames) and chaired the thermoacoustics sessions right after the first plenary talk. Thanks to the organizational work, which made this conference truly a perfect meeting.

02.10.2025
Just came back from the first SoPAC meeting on plasma-assisted combustion. A huge thank you to Christophe Laux and the organization team for this successful and enjoyable workshop ! Looking forward to the next one in two years.

17.09.2025
This week, the 32. Flammentag was organized by the University of Paderborn (Prof. Tina Kasper). The Flammentag has become an important national event and I enjoyed seeing the various topics on research and application of combustion. Before the conference dinner, I was awarded the Wilhelm-Jost prize from the German Section of the Combustion Institute ! A huge thank you to the community for this recognition, which is also an award for every member of my research group !

11.09.2025
The SOTIC meeting was held in Trondheim and was a fantastic event ! Big thanks to the organizers from NTNU, in particular for the nice event locations and the lab tour !

16.07.2025
Thanks to Christian Hasse and Andreas Dreizler from TU Darmstadt for the invitation to give a seminar talk and to examine a thesis on thermoacoustics in an industrial context !

23.06.2025
Today marks my start at the Leibniz Universität Hannover heading the Institute for Reactive Flows as an Associate Professor. More news to come !

19.06.2025
I attended the GRC in Les Diablerets and had really nice insights in the world of laser diagnostics. At Wednesday, I presented the work of the DMF group on RF-PINNs and enjoyed the discussions afterwards. Looking forward to the next edition !

05.06.2025
At the MCS, Fabio Frohberg presented his work on RF-PINNs for species reconstruction solely based on velocity measurements. We received a lot of positive feedback and thank the organizers for this successful meeting !

05.05.2025
Paul Porath’s paper „Low velocity streaks combined with intrinsic flame instabilities provoke boundary layer flashback in a turbulent premixed jet-stabilized hydrogen flame“ just got accepted for publication in Combustion and Flame. Thanks to Luuk, Sikke and Mark from TU Delft for the experimental data and the collaboration !

10.04.2025
The University of Edinburgh organized the European Combustion Meeting and Pablo presented the poster of the paper „Simultaneous reduction of CPU cost and computational domain by RF-PINNs initialized numerical simulations“, which is co-authored by Fabio. Thanks for the many discussions !

25.03.2025
The annual meeting „Combustion Fundamentals“ took place at Leibniz University Hannover, which I organized together with Profs T. Kasper and F. Dinkelacker. Thanks to the DFG for funding this event to spark new ideas !

07.03.2025
AG Turbo project meeting at DLR in Köln, where we kicked off with a new project ! Looking forward to the collaboration with Rolls Royce Germany.

29.01.2025
Finally, all our ASME Turbo Expo 2024 contributions made their way to the Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power:

• Image-Based Flashback Detection in a Hydrogen-Fired Gas Turbine Using a Convolutional Autoencoder
• Hybrid Surrogate Modeling Approach for Data Reduction and Design Space Exploration of Turbine Blades
• Evaluation of Data-Driven Classifiers for an Ignition Forecast of Large Gas Turbines

Thanks for the work to Paul Porath, Sazeed Ali and Florian Lang, and to our colleagues from Siemens Energy !

27.12.2024
Vikas’s paper on RF-PINNs is online and it is open access via this link. I believe that this work is a valuable contribution to PINNs in reactive flows !

21.10.2024
I had the pleasure to meet colleagues from PTB in Braunschweig and get to know their experimental facilities. Thank you for the well-organized morning session and looking forward on joint projects !

08.10.2024
AG Turbo project meeting at TU Dresden. Paul Porath, who is working on DNS/LES of flashback in H2 flames presented recent results and we sparked some new perspectives on this problem.

26.07.2024
The 40th Combustion Symposium ended this week. The DMF group contributed with one paper („From abstraction to design: Interpretable tree-based machine learning for stable thermoacoustic system layout„) and one work-in-progress poster on flashback in hydrogen flames.

01.07.2024
Last week, the DMF group contributed to the ASME Turbo Expo in London with three talks: based on data-driven models, these works addressed recent industrial issues in fleet ignition forecast, hydrogen flame flashback detection and surrogate modeling for turbine blade design.

21.06.2024
Yesterday, the SPHERIC 2024 ended and I was invited to give a keynote on „Physics-informed Machine Learning for reactive flows“. Thanks to Georg Mensah and Pierre Sabrowski from Dive Solutions for the invitation and the successful conference.

10.05.2024
The ICNC in Kyoto endet today with the Mini-Symposium that Profs. N. A. K. Doan, H. Gotoda and me organized: we thank the invited speakers for their valuable contributions ! I presented recent work of my group on physics-informed neural networks for reactive flows.

25.04.2024
The DMF group offered for the third time a workshop for the Girl’s Day 2024. We enjoyed the discussions and questions during the experiments that the 8 participants conducted by themselves.

12.04.2024
I had the opportunity to visit the combustion facilities at NTNU and give a talk about recent work of my group. Thanks to Nick Worth and his group members for firing up one of the annular rigs and Jonas Moeck for the invitation to Trondheim !

09.04.2024
The AG Turbo status seminar just ended with lots of discussions on current gas turbine research.

18.03.2024
Three papers of the DMF group accepted for the ASME Turbo Expo 2024 in London ! Two papers report on data-driven models for gas turbines burning 100% hydrogen and one describes a reduced-order model for fluid-structure interaction simulations of turbine blades.

01.02.2024
Welcome to Pablo Kandel to the DMF Team !

15.01.2024
Welcome to Fabio Frohberg joining my research group.

04.01.2024
I am chairing the ASME Turbo Expo session called „Combustion Dynamics: Flame Response II“ with 5 paper contributions.

18.11.2023
Kick-off for the AG Turbo project in collaboration with Siemens Energy. We will work on turbulent H2/air flames at engine relevant conditions.

27.09.2023
The 31. Deutscher Flammentag für nachhaltige Verbrennung took place at TU Berlin. Our group contributed with two talks and I chaired the „Gas Turbine“ session.

14.09.2023
The SoTIC meeting took place in Zurich hosted by Prof. Noiray from the ETH.

10.07.2023
The Belgian Section of the Combustion Institute invited me to give a webinar in their series „40 under 40“. The talk is available on YouTube and can be seen here. Again, thanks for the invitation !

08.05.2023
Dr. Anh Khoa Doan from TU Delft will be at TU Berlin for the entire week. He will also give a seminar talk on the 11.05., for which we welcome everybody in our VWS buidling.

27.04.2023
Again, the DMF group contributed to the Girl’s Day 2023 at TU Berlin.

02.02.2023
Dr. Pradip Xavier from Coria/Rouen will be at TU Berlin for a short research stay (20.02. – 24.02.). He is an expert in the field of laser diagnostics for reactive flows. Feel free to meet him in the VWS building !

04.01.2023
MSc. Maria Kuznetsova obtained a BIMoS PhD fellowship for 3 years on „Simulation-driven Design of Acoustic Metamaterials for Combustion Applications“. She will start in April in the DMF group.

22.11.2022
The European Research Council awarded me with an ERC-Starting Grant beginning in 2023. Looking forward on the project and the new team members.

17.10.2022
Panagiotis Stathopoulos invited me for a webinar at the DLR In­sti­tute of Low-Car­bon In­dus­tri­al Pro­cess­es. Thanks for the opportunity and looking forward for future exchanges.

16.08.2022
Today, I chaired the PhD defense of M. Asli entitled „Turbine Design Development for Pressure Gain Combustion Engines“ at TU Berlin. It was nice to meet Profs A. Andreini and A. Sorce.

29.07.2022
Final day of the 39th International Symposium on Combustion. I am extremely happy with the two presentions of my PhD Students Mario Casel and Vikas Yadav. Their papers will soon be available online: if you are interested in hydrogen combustion at elevated pressures or on Machine Learning methods for combustion dynamics, check out our papers !

20.06.2022
Last week I attended the ASME Turbo Expo in Rotterdam. I was lucky to open the first Combustion Dynamics session on Flame Transfer Functions as a session chair and to present my recent work „From Pressure Time Series Data to Flame Transfer Functions: A Framework for Perfectly-premixed Swirling Flames„. After a long while, this was an excellent occasion to meet colleagues and friends to discuss research and collaborations.

24.05.2022
Isaac Boxx from the DLR in Stuttgart organized a workshop for his HYBURN project. I was asked to present on our collaborative work entitled „Pressure time series – A valuable data set for flame dynamics modeling„. The idea to identify a flame model based on pressure time series continued to grow and got accepted recently for the ASME Turbo Expo conference in Rotterdam.

28.04.2022
We hosted 13 participants (between 12 and 14 years old) of the Girl’s Day 2022 at TU Berlin. Within our workshop ‚Clean Energy Generation‘, we discussed problems in energy generation and the link to combustion science. Additionally, we prepared around 10 experiments with candle flames, with which the participants could learn ‚hands-on‘ about flammability limits, emissions, ignition etc. We enjoyed the questions, the discussions and their curiosity about this topic and hope to have sparked some deep interest in this field.

08.04.2022
My PhD students Mario Casel and Vikas Yadav have both received the acceptance letter for their submissions for the 39th International Symposium on Combustion. I am extremely happy to see their success !

05.04.2022
I presented the plenary talk on „Machine Learning in Chemically Reacting Flows: Trends and Perspectives“ in Heidelberg. This national event was organized by Prof. Eva Gutheil and was my first in-person meeting since I started at TU Berlin.

15.03.2022
My paper „From Pressure Time Series Data to Flame Transfer Functions: A Framework for Perfectly-premixed Swirling Flames“ was accepted for the ASME Turbo Expo Conference 2022 in Rotterdam. This work was done in collaboration with Alp Albayrak.

15.09.2021
I will present my recent work on „Pressure data for parameter calibration of flame transfer function models for premixed swirling flames“ at the 30. Deutschen Flammentag. Xiaomin Wang, an exchange research trainee from Coria/Rouen worked on this topic for 4 month in our group at TU Berlin. I will also chair the „Combustion in Gas Turbines“ session. The conference will be held online and the registration is still open.

16.08.2021
The DMF group submitted two papers to the SoTiC 2021 – Symposium on Thermoacoustics in Combustion: Industry meets Academia conference. Both papers will be presented on the 07. and 08.09. in the afternoon sessions.

09.08.2021
The X-Student Research Group just presented on their outstanding research results. We are happy to have hosted these highly motivated students within our group. We will share their results on our TU webpage (as soon as we have access back to the IT services). Based on this very successful teaching experience, we will establish a follow-up student project for the upcoming winter term 2021/22.

26.04.2021
New paper accepted !
Our latest work entitled „An Exceptional Point switches stability of a thermoacoustic experiment“ is accepted for publication in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

09.04.2021
The DMF group is selected for the X-Student Research Group organized by the Berlin Univerity Alliance (16 grants out of 76 applications). We are happy to introduce Master students from all Berlin Universities to our specific research topics and to work with them during this summer.

31.03.2021
I launched a new colloquium „Data-Driven Methods in Enginering Science“ at TU Berlin, which is open to researchers and engineers. Here, we will discuss applications and limitations of modern methods coming from Machine Learning/Artifical Intelligence. Today, we started with a talk from a member of my group. Further talks will be acounced at the DMF group webpage.

16.02.2021
Yesterday, I was speaking in front of the Berlin International Graduate School in Model and Simulation based Research (BIMoS) audience. Thanks for the invitation, I enjoyed the discussion after the talk.

20.01.2021
In the first and second week of March 2021, Master students can attend the two new courses developed at TUB: (i) OpenFoam for Combustion Processes and (ii) Machine Learning for Dynamical Systems, where each course is equivalent to 6 credit points (4 SWS).

15.01.2021
The Berlin International Graduate School in Model and Simulation based Research (BIMoS) invited me to give a virtual seminar talk on the current research at the DMF group on 15th February 2021. Looking forward to meet new colleagues from TUB.

02.12.2020
New paper online !
This paper published in the Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power reports on the collaboration with Dr. I. Boxx from DLR Stuttgart on a high-pressure combustor.

02.11.2020
The last two weeks, I introduced two new courses at TU Berlin (i) OpenFoam for Combustion Processes and (ii) Machine Learning for Dynamical Systems. Although the current situation is challenging for everyone, we had positive and valuable feedback from the students.

23.10.2020
The DAEDALUS collaboration voted new associated PIs and I am part of the group now. Together, we will focus on data-driven methods for life sciences and fluid dynamics.

02.09.2020
I gave my first webinar talk at the Chair of Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Embedded Systems (TUM). Thanks to Noah Klarmann for the invitation to talk about machine learning methods entering the field of combustion dynamics.

17.08.2020
New paper online !
If you are curious about the impact of hydrogen fuel on combustion instabilities then check this paper out.

18.03.2020
I am excited to announce that my project on combustion noise and system identification was selected for the CTR Summer Program at Stanford University. I look forward to work on this project together with Matthias Ihme.

05.03.2020
Happy to announce that two papers got accepted for conference presentation: one for ASME Turbo Expo 2020 (London, UK) and the other one for the International Symposium on Combustion 2020 (Adelaide, AU). Both papers are currently under consideration for journal publication.

04.12.2019
I will be chairing the ‚Combustion Dynamics: Liquid Fuels‘ session at the upcoming ASME Expo Turbo 2020 in London/UK together with my colleague André Fischer.

15.11.2019
Today is my last day after a week at Cambridge University. Thanks a lot to Luca Magri for the invitation to give a seminar talk and for the formal dinner at Pembroke College !

28.10.2019
Just got back from Coria in Rouen, where I gave a seminar talk on recent work. Thanks again to Frédéric Grisch and Pradip Xavier for organizing insightful meetings and a nice day at the lab !

25.10.2019
Yesterday, I have presented some recent work on intrinsic thermoacoustic instabilities at the EM2C lab in Paris. Special thanks to Laurent Zimmer and Sébastien Ducruix for an exciting and well-organized visit of the experimental facilities and the opportunity to give a seminar talk !

18.09.2019
On the way back home from Bochum, where the 29. Deutscher Flammentag took place. I presented some recent results on the collaborative work with Isaac Boxx from DLR Stuttgart.

10.05.2019
I really enjoyed the 17th International Conference on Numerical Combustion in Aachen ! Special thanks to the contributors for making the Mini-Symposium „Numerical modelling of combustion instabilities“ possible.

04.04.2019
New paper published !
If you are interested in combustion instabilities appearing in aeronautical engines using kerosene spray flames, take a look at our newest Combustion and Flame paper here.

22.03.2019
Good bye and save travel home to the ATHENS programme participants of March 2019 ! I really enjoyed this week having motivated and smart students around me. This hard working group did not even notice me taking a snapshot…

29.01.2019
My proposed Mini-Symposium „Numerical modelling of combustion instabilities“ has been accepted for the 17th International Conference on Numerical Combustion. There will be in total 6 presentations given by colleagues from TU Berlin (Prof. Oberleithner), NTNU Trondheim (Prof. Moeck), ETH Zurich (Prof. Noiray), CentraleSupélec (Dr. Ducruix and Dr. Schmitt) and Cambridge (Dr. Magri). I will present my latest research on the impact of methane/hydrogen fuel mixtures on the intrinsic thermoacoustic feedback loop.

24.11.2018
The course on Thermoacoustics modelling in the framework of the ATHENS programme just ended. I enjoyed having 18 students from all across Europe during this week in the computer lab. Teaching works best, when students motivate each other. Here is the proof:

15.11.2018
My colleague Thomas Steinbacher just published a new paper on flame dynamics. It can be downloaded here.

28.09.2018
We had a joint Consortium Meeting for the Magister and Annulight projects in Cambridge, where four PhD students from the TFD group presented themselves to the community.

06.08.2018
I just came back from the 37th International Symposium on Combustion at Dublin/Ireland. Besides co-chairing a „Gas Turbine“ session, I presented a poster with work in progress. If you could not see it during the poster session, take a look at it here.

16.07.2018
The thermoacoustic course that I will give in the framework of the ATHENS programme is now online and registrations are open !
The one week course will provide a basic understanding of numerical modelling of thermoacoustic instabilities together with hands-on sessions in the afternoons. Feel free to join !

29.06.2018
It is an honor and pleasure to serve as a session chair for the 37th International Symposium on Combustion organized by Profs. Heinz Pitsch (RWTH Aachen) and Hai Wang (Stanford University). See you at the Tuesday morning „Gas Turbine“ session !

12.06.2018
I just started a new project: my personal research webpage.