Hailing from the great city of New Orleans, Louisiana, Chris graduated summa cum laude in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia in 2013. After starting his graduate studies at Princeton, he joined Prof. Yiguang Ju's Combustion Lab, where he busies himself with a variety of flame chemistry experiments. Chris's current research interests include low-temperature flames ("cool flames"), ignition-dominated turbulent combustion, and exhaust gas dilution in premixed flames.