PhD, Ritsumeikan University (2010)

International Excellent Young Scientists, University of Science & Technology of China (2025–2026)

Associate professor, University of Science & Technology of China (2023–present)

Designated assistant professor, Nagoya university (2020–2023)

Associate professor, Hefei University of Technology (2017–2019)

Marie Curie Research fellow, The University of Warwick (2013–2015)

Administrative assistant, Ritsumeikan University (2008–2013)

Research assistant, Ritsumeikan University (2005–2007)

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Fire Dynamics

Combustion

Chemical Engineering (Methanation, Oil fouling, Chemical vapour deposition etc.

Guest Editor of Special Issue Fire Numerical Simulation, Second Volume of Fire (2024–present)

Guest Editor of Special Issue Fire Numerical Simulation of Fire, (2022–2024)

Associate Professor, State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China

Dr. Kazui Fukumoto obtained his Ph.D. in Engineering from Ritsumeikan University in 2010 under the supervision of Prof. Yoshifumi Ogami. His doctoral work focused on developing a turbulent combustion model based on chemical equilibrium and the eddy dissipation concept for predicting combustion products in diffusion flames.

He was awarded the Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship (IIF) from the European Commission (2013–2015), during which he conducted collaborative research with Prof. Jennifer Wen at the University of Warwick, UK, on fully coupled fluid-solid simulations of upward flame spread.

From 2017 to 2019, he served as an associate professor at Hefei University of Technology, China, where he collaborated with Prof. Changjian Wang on flame spread and evaporation modeling of liquid fuels. From 2020 to 2023, he held the position of a designated assistant professor for research projects at Nagoya University, Japan, contributing to multiple industrial and government-funded CFD projects, including methanation reactor simulations with Prof. Koyo Norinaga.

Since 2023, he has been engaged in collaborative research with Prof. Fei Tang and Prof. Longhua Hu at the University of Science and Technology of China, where he currently holds a position as an associate professor. In 2025, he was selected for the International Excellent Young Scientists program and awarded a National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) project as a principal investigator, focusing on an experimental and numerical study of pool fires fully incorporating liquid fuel and bubble motions.

His current research interests include numerical and experimental studies of turbulent diffusion flames, pool fires, flame spread, and multiphase flow phenomena, with a particular emphasis on developing advanced simulation techniques based on OpenFOAM. He has published extensively in high-impact journals including Combustion and Flame, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Fuel, Energy & Fuels, and Applied Thermal Engineering.

International Excellent Young Scientists Program (2025–2026)

Selected as a principal investigator by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under the International Excellent Young Scientists initiative. Project title: Experimental and numerical study of pool fires fully incorporating liquid fuel and bubble motions.

Excellent Poster Award (2021)

Awarded by the Society of Chemical Engineering, Japan, for the poster presentation titled “Numerical study on CO₂ methanation in a plate-type reactor” at the 52nd Annual Meeting, Okayama, Japan.

Marie Curie Fellow (2013–2015)

Awarded the Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship (IIF) from the European Commission (Grant No. 328784) for the research project “Fully coupled fluid-solid simulation of upward flame spread and fire growth” conducted at the University of Warwick, UK, under the supervision of Prof. Jennifer Wen.