Dr Thierry POINSOT (Principal Investigator) 
Dr Poinsot is research director at IMFT CNRS, scientific advisor for the CFD group at CERFACS, senior research fellow at Stanford University, consultant for various companies and member of the French Academy of Sciences . His group has produced a significant part of recent research in the field of LES of turbulent combustion. He teaches numerical methods and combustion in many schools and universities (Ecole Centrale Paris, ENSEEIHT, ENSICA, Supaero, UPS, Stanford, Von Karmann Institute, CEFRC Princeton and Beijing). He has authored more than 250 papers in refereed journals and 200 communications. He is the author of the textbook "Theoretical and numerical combustion" with Dr D. Veynante and the editor of «Combustion and Flame ». He has received the first Cray prize in 1993, the BMW prize in 2002, the Grand Prix of French Academy in 2003, an ERC advanced grant in 2013 on thermoacoustics and a second one in 2019 on hydrogen combustion for renewable energy storage. In 2017, he has received the Zeldovich Gold medal of the Combustion Institute. He also gave the prestigious Hottel plenary lecture at the 35th Symposium on Comb. in Seoul (2016). In 2018 he was elected as Fellow of the Combustion Institute.
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Dr Laurent SELLE (co PI) 
Laurent Selle obtained his PhD in 2004 from Cerfacs where he gained his expertise in the numerical simulation of turbulent combustion. He specifically worked on the use of Large-Eddy Simulation for the prediction and mitigation of combustion instabilities. His PhD work, published in 2004 was the most cited article in Combustion and Flame over the 2004-09 period. Dr. Selle then worked as a postdoc at Caltech and JPL for two years on the the DNS of two-phase and supercritical flows. Since 2006, he has been a full time researcher at CNRS, still working on high-performance computing and numerical simulations, but increasingly involved in experimental works. Dr. Selle was consultant at ONERA over the 2010-18 period, providing expertise on high-frequency combustion instabilities in rocket engines. Since 2019, he is the acting chair of the french section of the Combustion Institute.
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Pr Thierry SCHULLER (co PI) 
Dr Thiery Schuller is Professor at University Toulouse III since 2017. He started his career in 2004 at Centrale Paris and EM2C laboratory from CNRS. He was the head of the joined Chair on oxy-combustion and heat transfer between Air Liquide, CNRS and Ecole Centrale Paris from 2012 to 2018. He teaches fluid mechanics and heat transfer. His research focus on experimental aspects and modelling issues in combustion. He has authored more than 120 papers in refereed journals and 100 communications. He is also serving as editor for the periodical journal «Flow Turbulence and Combustion ». In 2010, he received the Silver Medal of the Combustion Institute. He has received an advanced ERC grant in 2023 (SELECT-H).
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Pierre- Alexandre MASSET (PhD student) 
Pierre-Alexandre MASSET is a french student who graduated recently from Ecole polytechnique and ISAE-SupAero. He also holds a double master’s degree in fluid mechanics (energy, dynamics and transfers) from INSA Toulouse. After completing a civil service in deprived neighborhoods in Strasbourg, he took part in the CleanSky program at MT Aerospace, in Augbsurg, Germany, and FEM-designed a new generation of aluminium satellite tanks compatible with previous supports from EUTELSAT. Later, he entered the world of academic research in Germany at ITKE, Stuttgart. There, he studied bio-inspired actuators and developed a novel mechanical framework to compute the elastic modulus of cellular networks, which was check experimentally. In 2019, he worked at CERFACS on lattice Boltzmann methods on fundamental stability aspects of the discrete velocity Bolztmann equations. He developed a linear unified framework to give correct interpretations of the equations based on a Knudsen number description. This allowed to treat simultaneously the issues of the hydrodynamic limits while determining theoretically the critical athermal Mach number of the lattice Boltzmann equations. Triathlete and drummer, his energy is now dedicated on the SCIROCCO program, on the stability analysis of hydrogen combustion chambers in porous media, constituting his PhD work (2019-2021). He is now working for CEA on hydrogen safety.
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Sylvain MARRAGOU (PhD student) 
S. Marragou received his master in Fluid Dynamics in 2019 from University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse. He also graduated as Advanced technician's certificate in Motorcycle Mechanics - Technical college Jacques Brel (St Pons de thomières) in 2015. He was in charge of the development of hydrogen swirled flames in SCIROCCO. He graduated in 2023 and will join KAUST for 2024.
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Andrea ANIELLO (PhD student) 
Andrea is a Mechanical Engineer with passion for motorsport, vehicle, technology, challenges. He received his master degree from University of Rome Tor Vergata. Since January 2018, he has been working for Jaguar Land Rover in Coventry as a research Engineer, focusing on improvement of the exhaust system and turbocharger design, targeting improve performances in terms of efficiency and energy management. He also worked on vehicle testing in order to investigate updates on powertrain level. After his PhD finished in 2022, he now is with ARIANE GROUP in Vernon.
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Dr Omar DOUNIA (Post doc researcher) 
Dr O. Dounia obtained his master in 2014 from University Paul Sabatier and received his PhD from Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (INPT) in 2018 on 'Numerical investigation of gas explosion phenomena' at CERFACS. He received the INPT PhD prize for this work. His expertise is on CFD for reacting flows and especially on shock capturing methods, detonation, LES models for DDT, omplex models for flame/metals salts interaction. In SCIROCCO, he will be in charge of coordinating DNS and LES for H2 / fossil fuels flames.
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Herve MAGNES (PhD student)
Herve Magnes studied at ISAE ENSMA and joined the SCIROCCO team to perform experimental work on the HYLON H2 chambers. He is also in charge of the high pressure experiments with ONERA and KAUST.
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Martin VILESPY (PhD student) 
M. Vilespy studied at ENSMA and ETS Montreal before joining the SCIROCCO team in 2022 to perform simulations. He is also managing the CAW H2 CFD workshop where muyltiple groups worldwide are computing the HYLON experiment.