tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90812921419914196232024-03-17T01:19:09.729-07:00Fortune favours the boldBlog of Professor Guillermo Rein working from London on fire science and engineering
[<a href="http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/g.rein">Link</a>]. Follow me in <a href="https://twitter.com/GuillermoRein">twitter</a>.Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.comBlogger134125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-81254327132714431342019-12-12T11:47:00.000-08:002019-12-12T11:47:01.941-08:00PhD Studentship in timber and fire at Imperial College LondonApplications are invited for a PhD studentship in the field of fire science and artificial intelligence funded by EPSRC and Arup.
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The objective of the PhD thesis is to understand how a fire behaves inside a compartment made of timber. The work will contribute towards better fire engineering design of tall timber in the UK and worldwide. The method of research will be based on Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-75716099340777373392019-10-24T16:35:00.001-07:002019-10-29T10:14:47.797-07:00Join Imperial Hazelab: Research Associate investigating fire and polymer composites used in airplanesApplications are invited for a Research Associate in the field
of fire science and engineering at Imperial College London, UK.
The Research Associates will join Imperial Hazelab,
the multidisciplinary research group led by Prof Guillermo Rein, part
of the Department of Mechanical Engineering
at Imperial College London. The purpose of Hazelab is to reduce the
worldwide burden of accidental Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-61377850666600869062019-07-30T14:34:00.000-07:002019-08-15T06:56:57.232-07:00Imperial Hazelab is hiring Research Associates in fire science. Join us.Applications are invited for several Research Associates in the field of fire science and engineering at Imperial College London, UK.
The Research Associates will join Imperial Hazelab,
the multidisciplinary research group led by Prof Guillermo Rein, part
of the Department of Mechanical Engineering
at Imperial College London. The purpose of Hazelab is to reduce the
worldwide burden of Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-73759488044364036392018-11-21T02:24:00.002-08:002019-03-29T08:15:18.704-07:00PhD Studentship in fire science and high-rise timber buildings at Imperial College LondonApplications are invited for a PhD studentship in the field of fire science with Prof Guillermo Rein at Imperial College London.
Cross-laminated timber: the future of buildings?
Photo: Watts&Helm, 2015 in Seattle Business.
The objective of the PhD thesis, funded by EPSRC and Arup UK, will be to understand how a fire behaves in a building with exposed timber. The work will contribute Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-63799111954326172952017-12-14T10:54:00.003-08:002018-05-22T07:00:33.282-07:00PhD Studentship in facade fires at Imperial College London
2013 facade fire in Grozny. Photo from huffingtonpost
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in the field of fire science funded by EPSRC and Arup.
The objective of the research project is to understand via the combination of modelling and experiments how combustible facades burn so we can avoid these fires from spreading in real buildings.
The student will join Imperial Hazelab, theGuillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-61578531003536323102017-06-28T05:52:00.001-07:002017-06-28T05:52:50.842-07:00Open Letter to the EU Commission: Without understanding of fire, protection of citizens cannot be guaranteed Open Letter to the Commission: Without understanding of fire, protection of citizens cannot be guaranteed by Guillermo Rein on Scribd
Dear EU Commissioners,
Fire in our forests or in our buildings is an old evil that has always threatened and harmed humans. Despite being a millennial-old risk to humanity, our understanding of fire remains very limited. Following the very recent events ofGuillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-34667483126079548272016-11-18T11:34:00.001-08:002016-11-23T16:23:59.968-08:00Fire is a bad master: acceptance speech of the IAWF Early Career Award16th of November, Long Beach, California, 2nd International Smoke Symposium,
International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF).
by Dr Guillermo Rein, Imperial College London.
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Guillermo (left) receives the award from Dr Tom Zimmerman, the President of the International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF).
I am honoured for receiving the Early Career Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-85922336049101716062016-11-02T04:46:00.003-07:002016-11-02T04:55:11.746-07:00Constructive role of Peer Review in scienceI am fortunate to have been interviewed by Publons on my views about peer review and scientific progress.
I took the opportunity to highlight that peer review has an essential constructive role in science, it is not only about setting a minimum standard. I also complimented the important role of editors, the elephant in the room of peer review.
The full Q&A can be read here: [download pdf Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-59540882654199002692016-10-27T15:08:00.000-07:002016-10-27T15:08:26.095-07:00Fancy dresses and flaws in flammability requirements<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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After reading a sign in the local charity shop, I watched
this excellent 2015 BBC One investigation piece on textile flammability
requirements for children's fancy dresses. It was produced after the daughter
of TV presenter Claudia Winkleman was badly injured in 2014 because her fancy Halloween dress got on fire.
BBC One found that fancy Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-33959801464758510672016-09-27T14:30:00.000-07:002016-09-27T15:45:55.423-07:00Acceptance Speech of the 2016 Lund Award27th of September, Denver, Colorado. SFPE Conference and Expo.
by Dr Guillermo Rein, Imperial College London.
At the podium delivering the acceptance speech in Dever. Photo by M Stromgren.
I am honoured to receive the Lund award and I am thankful to the Awards Committee and the Society of Fire Protection Engineering for having chosen me. I am humbled too, especially when I read the list ofGuillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-81338801939605464232016-06-05T23:00:00.000-07:002016-06-05T23:00:25.636-07:00ERC HAZE: Reducing the Burden of Smouldering MegafiresI am delighted to announce that I recently won a Consolidator Grant from European Research Council (ERC) for my group, Imperial Hazelab. With a total budget of €2m and 5 years ahead, I will be leading the project HAZE in Reducing the Burden of Smouldering Megafires: an Earth-Scale Challenge.
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Dr Rein during a field trip making measurements
on an Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-31349697359975036832016-06-02T15:47:00.000-07:002016-06-02T15:47:06.793-07:00Welcome Yuqi and Franz to Imperial HazelabDuring 2015, Hazelab grew with two new PhD students who joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yuqi Hu and Franz Richter.
Yuqi Hu is from China. He became a Safety Engineer from the China University of Geosciences in 2012 with a BSc degree, and then obtained an MSc degree from University Of Science and Technology of China in 2015. At USTC, Yuqi studied experimentally the small Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-57488110868352618392016-05-16T16:50:00.006-07:002016-05-16T16:50:56.527-07:00Radio interview on technology and the McMurray wildfireLast week I was interviewed by Gareth Mitchell for the radio Click of the BBC World Service about the Fort McMurray wildfire in Canada. It is a short piece, just 3 min long, and it can he heard here. I was asked about the role of technology fighting wildfires, and I chose to highlight tankers, satellites, drones, and computer models.
This is the text by BBC introducing the recording:
"The Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-74574085537292227892016-04-29T07:24:00.000-07:002016-04-29T07:46:21.032-07:00Fin's and Candle's Creative ContestsEngineering can be the most creative profession, but we engineers are in general not the best communicators nor the best at appreciating artistic work.
I always want to build on this issue and encourage a bit my engineering students' appreciation of communications and the arts. So this academic year, as in previous years, I started the courses with a Creative Contest, for both ME2 Heat TransferGuillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, UK51.5007339 -0.1781383000000005325.9786994 -41.4867323 77.0227684 41.1304557tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-49278037215557175542016-03-21T04:03:00.002-07:002016-04-07T05:21:22.573-07:00The Fire Navigator: smoke and flame sensors in smart buildingsThe Fire Protection Engineering magazine has recently published our article reporting exciting research on the theme of smart buildings and fire protection. In this work, sponsored by Chief Donald J. Burns Memorial Research Grant, my student Nahom and I developed an algorithm that uses data arriving from building sensors to detect and map an ongoing fire. The algorithm, called the Fire Navigator,Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-80653021097232629142015-12-03T03:35:00.000-08:002015-12-21T03:25:21.062-08:00Tackling the haze in South-East Asia: a call to COP21 Paris
Reprint of my original article published first in the blog of The Grantham Institute.
Peat fires are raging in Indonesia and their extent is staggering. The dry season is not over and NASA satellites have already counted more than 12,000 active fires, which have emitted in excess of 1.6 Gton of carbon dioxide equivalent. This is more than Japan’s annual emissions and close to the footprint of Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-42534505322067241972015-10-27T07:58:00.001-07:002015-10-27T16:52:01.833-07:00Our Student at the Royal Welcome of Chinese President
I was delighted to learn that my PhD student Xinyan Huang attended the Royal Welcome and Honour Guard Inspection held by Queen Elizabeth II for the Chinese President Xi Jinping.
This is a traditional ceremonial welcome to foreign leaders visiting the UK. It took place last Tuesday near Buckingham Palace with the presence of senior royal family members and political leaders.
Xinyan was invitedGuillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-65374802376606802612015-10-12T17:28:00.004-07:002015-10-12T17:28:50.745-07:00Fire Science is in SeasonArticle reprinted with permission from the Combustion Institute.
by Guillermo Rein, Imperial College London, UK
and Naian Liu, University of Science and Technology, China
Wildfires in the United States this season are raging in California and other regions. Thousands of people have been evacuated from their communities, their homes lost. Millions of hectares of forest have burned.Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-24992303743334158192015-09-21T09:09:00.004-07:002015-09-21T09:09:42.203-07:00Travelling fire wins Best Fire Research Project by SFPE UKWe are delighted to announce that an Imperial-Arup team has won the Best Fire Research Project 2015.
The award, give by the UK Chapter of Society of Fire Protection Engineers and sponsored by H+H Fire was given to the project iTFM: Improved Travelling Fires for the Structural Design of Modern Buildings.
Team members were Egle Rackauskaite, PhD Student at Imperial College London, Guillermo Rein, Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-85424466178237322752015-08-16T15:24:00.001-07:002016-01-06T15:55:55.195-08:00PhD Studentship in Heat Transfer at Imperial College LondonApplications are invited for a PhD studentship in the field of heat transfer and artificial intelligence funded by EPSRC and Arup.
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2013 facade fire in Grozny. Photo from huffingtonpost
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Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-77849201855159140642015-08-03T16:46:00.001-07:002015-08-03T16:46:44.050-07:00Breakthrough in the understanding of flaming wildfiresI wrote a commentary article in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) about a recent stellar contribution to our understanding of how wildfires spread. In doing so, I have written in short the scientific context of wildland fires and also I put forward the possible impacts of the work on the field..
It can be read here ((10.1073/pnas.1512432112), and an except follows.
Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-21446708330658296312015-07-27T09:18:00.000-07:002015-07-27T09:18:02.984-07:00Improved travelling fires for structural design
The collapse of 1WTC, New York City, 10:28am Sept 11, 2001. Photo by 9/11 Photos CC BY.
Our latest paper on travelling fires for structural design has been published in Structures (journal of IStrutE) with the title Improved formulation of travelling fires and application to concrete and steel structures.
Note: It is open access so you can read and share it without need for a Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-37201900295029489972015-07-21T18:40:00.000-07:002015-07-21T18:46:25.593-07:00Bosley explosions in wood millLast Friday evening, a crew of Sky News came home to interview me about the unfortunate explosions and fire in a wood mill in Bosley.You can watch the interview here.
"The smaller the wood pieces, the more flammable they are" - Dr @GuillermoRein explains the Cheshire explosions https://t.co/8AQVeQ4w7y
— Sky News Tonight (@SkyNewsTonight) July 17, 2015
Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-58697376033141782222015-06-19T03:19:00.000-07:002015-06-19T05:57:13.206-07:00Best Poster Award to reseach on the spread of peat firesCongratulations to my PhD students from Imperial Hazelab Xinyan Huang and Francesco Restuccia for winning the Best Poster Award at the 2nd European Symposium on Fire Safety Science. Visiting student Michaela Gramola from University of Cambridge was also co-author. The work is an experimental study on how peat fires spread and lead to the largest fires on Earth.
Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9081292141991419623.post-26531935224440518382015-05-30T07:49:00.006-07:002015-05-30T07:51:09.448-07:00Research grant on travelling fires with Michigan
Egle Rackauskaite, PhD student
at the Imperial Hazelab.
I am delighted to announce that we have won a research grant from SFPE that will fund our summer collaboration with the group of Prof. Ann Jeffers at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
As we speak, my PhD student Egle Rackauskaite is at Ann Arbor working for the summer. She will use the SFPE Foundation Student Research Grant to continue Guillermo Reinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02253104222082231355noreply@blogger.com0