Fortune favours the bold

Together with co-authors in Canada, US, UK and Netherlands, we have just published a progress article in Nature Geoscience   (vol 8, 2014) ...

Engineering can be the most creative profession, but we engineers are in general not the best communicators nor the best at appreciating art...

I have a dream too. That one day we could predict the movement of a fire and be able to inform the Fire Service ahead of time by using just ...

July was the first month of Nils Roenner at Imperial College London as a new PhD student in m group. He joins the Imperial Haze Lab in the ...

Figure 1. Newspaper excerpt from 1828 announcing an active volcano in Australia. Thanks to his knowledge in geology and an investigation...

A technology able to rapidly forecast wildfire dynamics would lead to a paradigm shift in the response to emergencies, providing the Fire Se...

Earthrise seen by the Apollo 8 crew, 1968. Credit: NASA Blog by Nils Roenner and Guillermo Rein, Department of Mechanical Engineering a...

Today was the first day of Francesco Restuccia at Imperial College London as new PhD student in m group. He joins the Imperial Haze Lab in t...

Izabella, new PhD student Last week was the first day of Izabella Vermesi at Imperial College London as my new PhD student. She joins th...

We sent the image below, The pyrolysis history of Perspex , to the Fire Science Image competition at the 11th International Symposium on Fir...

I am delighted to announce that our work won the award for the Best Student Poster at the 11th International Symposium on Fire Safety Scienc...

I am delighted to announce that we won the award for the Best Fire Science Image at the 11th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science,...

In a few weeks, we are presenting in Christchurch, New Zealand, a brief paper [ 1 ] on the impact of fire in wind turbines. The wind ene...