Francesco Contino
Professor at Université catholique de Louvain
Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Walloon Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolFrancesco Contino is a combustion and energy researcher and professor with 14 years of academic experience, specializing in numerical simulation of reacting flows and characterization of advanced/biofuels. He leads collaborative research (chairing the Joint Research Group Burn) and has held faculty positions at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Université catholique de Louvain, where he now serves as professor. His background combines hands-on engine experiments (HCCI, esters) and CFD method development (TDAC, OpenFOAM collaborations), bridging fundamental kinetics with practical engine applications. Fluent in Chinese after a year at Nankai University, he also founded Ristretto to train scientists in effective communication, reflecting a rare blend of technical depth and public-facing skills.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Energy, Ph.D., Energy at Université catholique de LouvainChinese culture and language, Chinese culture and language at Nankai University
French, Chinese, Dutch, English
Github Skills (4)
journal5
academia4
open-access4
creative-commons4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
fcontino/TDAC
Jul 2011 - Sep 2011
Contributions:37 commits in 2 months
RCM-Initiative/OpenFOAM
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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