Fokion N. Egolfopoulos is a William E. Leonhard Professor of Engineering in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He obtained his Diploma degree in 1981 from the National Technical University of Athens, and his Ph.D. degree in 1990 from the University of California at Davis after having spent the last two years of his doctoral research at Princeton University. He is a recipient of the Silver Medal of the Combustion Institute at the Twenty-Second International Combustion Symposium. He has authored and co-authored one hundred and fifty-one (151) archival journal publications, eleven (11) editorial comments, two (2) book chapters, one hundred and sixty-two (162) conference proceedings, and he has given one hundred and sixty-four (164) invited and contributed scholarly addresses. He is a Fellow of the Combustion Institute, a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Since 2009 he has been the Editor in Chief of Combustion and Flame, after having served as an Associate Editor of the journal from 2003 until 2008.