It was a pleasure to welcome Thomas Howarth from the Institute for Combustion Technology, RWTH Aachen University, to Darmstadt. His talk Lean Premixed Hydrogen Flames: From Laminar Foundations to Turbulent Jets sparked lively discussions with the Simulation of Reactive Thermo-Fluid Systems (STFS), TU Darmstadt, and Reaktive Strömungen und Messtechnik (RSM), TU Darmstadt teams. After the presentation, the discussion continued with Vinzenz Schuh, Hendrik Nicolai, Felix Rong, Max Schneider and me.

After completing his PhD with Andy Aspden and his postdoc with Heinz Pitsch, Thomas is now about to take up a Lecturer position at Loughborough University.

Like Technische Universität Darmstadt, Loughborough is a University Technology Centre (UTC) and a strategic partner of Rolls-Royce. I am looking forward to future collaborations, especially within European Clean Aviation projects.

Many thanks to Max Schneider for organizing the visit. Max has been collaborating with Thomas for some time; as part of the SPP 2419 HyCAM he recently spent an extended period with Andy Aspden at Newcastle University and will soon begin the second part of his research stay there.