(UCI). He received his Ph.D. degree (1985) from the University of California, Berkeley, with an emphasis in combustion science. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Sandia National Laboratories Combustion Research Facility until 1987, when he joined the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at UCI. Dr. Dunn-Rankin's research is primarily in combustion and energy, droplets and sprays, and applications of laser diagnostic techniques to practical engineering systems, with recent emphasis on miniature combustion systems and electrical aspects of flames. He has more than 300 technical publications and presentations in these fields, and he is a Board officer of both the International Combustion Institute and the Institute for the Dynamics of Explosions and Reactive Systems.