Dr Bassam Dally is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a member of the Clean Combustion Research Center, CCRC, at KAUST, Saudi Arabia. Over the last 30 years, Prof Dally has contributed seminal work on a variety of research topics under the broad field of Thermo-Fluids. His major contributions are in turbulent reacting flows, MILD combustion, soot in flames, plasma propulsion, mineral processing, hybrid of concentrated solar thermal and combustion, and applied laser diagnostics. Lately, his work has focussed on utilization of hydrogen and ammonia fuels to decarbonize industrial processes. He has attracted millions of dollars for his research and have published more than 350 paper, 175 of those in leading scientific journals. He won many awards over the years, including ‘Energy Professional of the Year in South Australia’, and recently was awarded a Fellowship of the Combustion Institute. Prof Dally is the president of Saudi Arabian Section of the Combustion Institute and is the Program Co-Chair for the 40^th International Symposium on Combustion in Milan, Italy, 2024.