Yiguang Ju received his undergraduate BSE from Tsinghua University in 1986, and his PhD degree from Tohoku University (Japan) in 1994.  He was appointed to the assistant and associate professor ranks at Tohoku University in 1995 and 1998, and as a Changjiang Professor and Director of Thermophysics Institute at Tsinghua University in 2000. He joined Princeton University as an assistant professor in 2001 and became a full professor in 2011. Prof. Ju’s research interests include combustion theory, modeling and diagnostics in the area of near limit combustion, microscale combustion, alternative fuels, chemical kinetics, plasma assisted propulsion, and functional nanomaterials. He has published more than 130 refereed journal publications. He is an ASME Fellow and a board member of Combustion Institute of Eastern States. He received many awards including the Young Investigators Award (1999) at the First Asia Pacific Conference on Combustion, the Best Paper Award (1999) by the Japan Society for Aeronautical and Space Sciences, the Yangzi River Scholar Award (2000) by the Chinese Education Ministry, the National Outstanding Young Scholar award from NSFC (2001), the Distinguished Paper Award from the Thirty-third International Symposium on Combustion (2010), the NASA Director’s Certificate of Appreciation award (2011), and the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2011).