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= Andrés Hernán Fuentes Castillo =

Andrés Hernán Fuentes Castillo (born in Santiago, Chile) is currently the provost at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM). In addition to this role, he serves as both the director of the Energy Conversion and Combustion Group (EC2G) and a full professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, also at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM).

Research
Dr. Fuentes has made significant contributions to the fields of combustion and fire science. His research encompasses energy conversion, heat and mass transfer processes in combustion, ignition and flame propagation, microgravity combustion, smouldering combustion and thermal solar energy. Additionally, he serves as a consultant for companies, with a primary focus on the optimization of energy use, combustion processes and the reduction of pollutants.

He has received several awards, including the Silver Combustion Medal 2018, awarded by the The Combustion Institute; the Best Paper Award HEFAT 2021 at the 15th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics ; and the Selected Distinguished Paper of the International Symposium on Combustion, South Korea (2017). He was also awarded the Bronze Medal for CNES and ESA Parabolic Flight Campaigns, France (2005).

Career
Andrés Fuentes obtained his Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics, specialising in Energy and Combustion at Université de Poitiers, France, under the supervision of Pierre Joulain. He had previously completed his MSc. degree in Thermal Energy and Combustion at the same university, also under the guidance of Prof. Joulain. Prior to this, he had earned his Bachelor's degree at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa Maria (Chile).

He worked as a Research Fellow at the BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Edinburgh (2007). He also served as Maître des Conférences at Ecole Polytechnique Universitaire de Marseille, Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille 1), France. In this institution the research activities were conducted in the Fire Dynamics Group at IUSTI, from 2007 onwards.

Currently, he serves as Chair for the Chilean Combustion Section of the Combustion Institute and Editorial Board Member for the Fire Safety Journal. He also held the position of Posters Co-Chair for the “14th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science” at Tsukuba, Japan.