Bart Merci received his Master degree in Electro-Mechanical Engineering at Ghent University, Belgium, in 1997. He obtained his Ph.D. degree, with topic numerical simulations of turbulent combustion, at the Faculty of Engineering at Ghent University in 2000. He became Professor in 2004 and is now the Head of the research unit ' Combustion, Fire and Fire Safety' at this Faculty. His research interests include re safety engineering, as well as turbulence-chemistry interaction in turbulent ames.