Rob Bastiaans is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). In this capacity, he is also Chairman of the Dutch Section of the Combustion Institute and Chairman of the workgroup on Fuel Flexibility and Emissions of European Turbine Network (ETN). His teaching at TU/e revolves around mechanical Engineering, modeling combustion, and sustainable energy sources. His areas of expertise include fluid mechanics, modeling and simulation, computational fluid dynamics, numerical simulation, numerical modeling, numerical analysis, and CFD simulation. Current research includes the performance of flamelet-generated manifolds (FGM) in premixed turbulent cases, measuring burning velocities with the heat flux method, and FGM and pre-assumed PDFs In LES of combustion. Upcoming projects will examine complicated diffusion and combustion design.