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I am delighted t announce that my PhD student Xinyan Huang, working on peat fires, has been awarded the Qatar Petroleum Medal for PhD Resea...

In our recent paper published in Fire and Materials , we use laboratory experiments to investigate the differences in fire dynamics betwee...

Pioneering new research published in the Journal of the Geological Society .has debunked the theory that the asteroid that is thought to ha...

Research Associate in the Thermofluids Division at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London. Maximum salar...

Press Release: It reads like a movie script – ash falling from the sky, thick smoke shutting down airports and businesses, road closures t...

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...