Sebastien Candel

Sébastien Candel is University professor at CentraleSupélec, University of Paris-Saclay. ECP Engineer (1968), DEA Plasma physics (1968), PhD of the California Institute of Technology (1972), he is Doctor of Science (1977) from the University of Paris 6. Sébastien Candel was a research engineer at Onera from 1973 to 1975 then part-time engineer from 1976 to 1987 and assistant professor at the University of Compiègne from 1975 to 1978. Professor at Ecole Centrale Paris since 1978 he was responsible for the Aerospace Option from 1978 to 2001, then for the Mechanics, Aeronautics, Space option (MAE). He was a consultant for EdF from 1988 to 1998. He was a professor at the Institut Universitaire de France from 2001 to 2011. Visiting researcher at Caltech, Stanford University, University of California Los Angeles, and “RS Springer Professor” at the University of California Berkeley. He was leader of the Combustion group of the EM2C Laboratory, CNRS. His research work in the fields of aeroacoustics, combustion, propulsion and energy has been the subject of more than 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, more than 50 book sections and more than 200 communications with proceedings. He is the author of two books ("Fluid Mechanics", Dunod 1990, 1995, 2001, Problems in Fluid Mechanics, 1995). Laureate of the Académie des Sciences (Prix d'Aumale 1987, Grand Prix Marcel Dassault 2000), Silver Medal of CNRS (1993), Aeroacoustics award of the Confederation of European Aerospace Societies (2004), he received the Pendray Aerospace Literature award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2005) and an Honoris Causa Doctorate from the Free University of Brussels on the same year. In 2010 he received the Zeldovich Gold Medal and the Siver medal from the Combustion Institute and the Distinguished alumni award from Caltech (2013). Guest speaker on numerous occasions, he was Luigi Crocco speaker at Princeton University in 1993 and 2016, AGARD consultant in 1994, Hoyt C. Hottel lecturer in 2002, Air Products Distinguished Lecturer at Pennsylvania State University in 2003, Pratt and Whitney distinguished lecturer at the University of Connecticut, Frank Marble Aerospace lecturer at Caltech in 2010, Gerard Faeth lecturer at the University of Michigan in 2011, Edison lecturer at University Notre Dame in 2011 and CC Mei lecturer at MIT in 2019. Sébastien Candel has been a member or president of numerous scientific and editorial committees in the fields of mechanics, combustion and digital fluid mechanics. He was notably Vice President of the Combustion Institute from 1996 to 2004, member of the High Scientific Council of Onera from 1996 to 2002, member of the board of directors of the Association Aéronautique et Astronautique de France from 2003 to 2006, member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the ANR (2015-2017). He chaired the Supersonic Orientation Committee (1999-2000) then the Aeronautical Research Network on the Supersonic from 2001 to 2004. He chaired the Scientific Committee of Engineering Sciences of the National Agency for Research from 2005 to 2007. He was a member of the Scientific Council of CNRS (2010-2014) and of the Council of the Agency for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (AERES). He chaired the French National Mechanics Committee from 2005 to 2009, the Scientific Council of the French Institut Français du Pétrole et des Energies Nouvelles (2011-2016), the scientific council of Cerfacs (2008-2016), and he chairs the research and technology evaluation committee of CNES since 2011. He has been a member of the Safran Scientific Council since 2015 and chairs the EDF Scientific Council since 2017. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the Institute of Physics, the Combustion Institute and of 3AF. He was Associate editor of Combustion and Flame (2001-2009), "Combustion Science and Technology" (2008-2010) and of the Comptes rendus Mecanique of the Académie des Sciences (1996-2009). Officer of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the National Order of Merit, he is also Commander of the Academic Palms. Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences (1994), elected member of this Academy in 2011, he was its Vice-President (2015-2016) and then its President (2017-2018). He is a founding member of the Academy of Technologies (2000), a member of the Air and Space Academy (2012), a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States (2009) and of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (2020).