Ruud Eggels is a combustion methods specialist at Rolls-Royce Deutschland since 2001. He jointed Rolls-Royce in the UK in 1997. He completed his Ph.D. at the Technical University Eindhoven.

He is the global lead for combustion methods development within Rolls-Royce. It implies the responsibility for the global strategy and development of combustion methods. Within the last decade CFD has grown into a design tool for combustors and is being applied intensively for fuel injector and combustor design.

Three years ago, Rolls-Royce started on the development of a combustor system suitable for hydrogen.

Since 2016, Ruud is a member of the board of the German Section of the Combustion Institute and since 2018 member of the board of directors of the Internal Combustion Institute.