The International Conference on Numerical Combustion (ICNC) is one of the true highlights in my calendar every two years. The program is focused, the discussions stimulating and purposeful — three days that feel like a big family reunion of the combustion community. I just came home from the conference in Rome (https://www.icnc2025.com/).

I really appreciate the format: it’s all about presenting work in progress, discussing constructively — sometimes quite critically — and often continuing the debates well past dinner. This year’s three keynote lectures were outstanding — by Sili Deng, Christos Frouzakis, and Venkat Raman.

From Simulation of Reactive Thermo-Fluid Systems (STFS), TU Darmstadt, we contributed to seven presentations. I had the pleasure of presenting our activities on hydrogen combustion — from fundamental model development and high-fidelity simulations of turbulent flames on supercomputers, to the application of these models in technical systems.

A big thank you to the organizers Hong Im, Mauro Valorani, and Joseph Powers for an inspiring and perfectly organized conference!