Andrés Z. Mendiburu is currently a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), based in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He earned his Bachelor of Energy Engineering in 2008 and his PhD in Mechanical Engineering in 2016. He wrote his doctoral thesis in the field of flammability limits of hydrocarbons and alcohols in air. Since them he carried out experimental and theoretical research on flammability limits, detonability limits, deflagrations, detonations, and fast flames. Andrés has conduct theoretical and experimental research, involving combustion, and has advised (and co-advised) master’s dissertations and PhD theses in the area. He has also participated in research projects involving biomass gasification, syngas utilization in internal combustion engines and in micro-gas turbines, solar energy and absorption refrigeration. He is currently the coordinator of the International Research Group for Energy Sustainability (IRGES), where he continues conducting research on ethanol and alternative fuels. He is co-author of the book Applied Combustion (in Portuguese), published in 2018, which he uses in his lectures in the Graduate Program of Mechanical Engineering at UFRGS.