Tuesday, 27 October 2015

Our Student at the Royal Welcome of Chinese President

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I was delighted to learn that my PhD student Xinyan Huang attended the Royal Welcome and Honour Guard Inspection held by Queen Elizabeth ...
Monday, 12 October 2015

Fire Science is in Season

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Article reprinted with permission from the Combustion Institute .    by Guillermo Rein , Imperial College London, UK and Naian Liu , Uni...
Monday, 21 September 2015

Travelling fire wins Best Fire Research Project by SFPE UK

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We 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 ...
Sunday, 16 August 2015

PhD Studentship in Heat Transfer at Imperial College London

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Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in the field of heat transfer and artificial intelligence funded by EPSRC and Arup. ...
Monday, 3 August 2015

Breakthrough in the understanding of flaming wildfires

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I wrote a commentary article in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) about a recent stellar contribution to our und...
Monday, 27 July 2015

Improved travelling fires for structural design

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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 f...
Tuesday, 21 July 2015

Bosley explosions in wood mill

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Last 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 ca...
Friday, 19 June 2015

Best Poster Award to reseach on the spread of peat fires

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Congratulations to my PhD students from Imperial Hazelab Xinyan Huang and Francesco Restuccia for winning the Best Poster Award at the 2nd E...
Saturday, 30 May 2015

Research grant on travelling fires with Michigan

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Egle Rackauskaite, PhD student at the Imperial Hazelab. I am delighted to announce that we have won a research grant from SFPE that wil...
Thursday, 14 May 2015

Hazelab group photo

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From left to right, in this group photo we have: Xinyan Huang (3rd year PhD student), Francesco Restuccia (1st year PhD student), Egle Rac...
Wednesday, 13 May 2015

Welcome Virginia to Imperial Hazelab

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Dr Virginia Alonso has joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London as postdoc in my research group, Imperial...
Tuesday, 21 April 2015

O-Revealer: Landmine clearance by the controlled use of fire

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For the past few years, I have been developing a new method to clear landmine. Let me tell you a bit of the story. More than 30 years afte...
Sunday, 1 March 2015

Can poisonous Carbon Monoxide diffuse through building walls?

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Fire Protection Research Foundation report:   "Carbon Monoxide Diffusion through Porous Walls: A Critical Review of Literature and Inci...
Monday, 16 February 2015

Xinyan Huang wins Qatar Petroleum Medal for research on Clean Fossil Fuels

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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...
Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Wildfires and the burnig of Pine needles

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In our recent paper published in Fire and Materials , we use laboratory experiments to investigate the differences in fire dynamics betwee...
Thursday, 22 January 2015

Doubt cast on global firestorm generated by dino-killing asteroid

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Pioneering new research published in the Journal of the Geological Society .has debunked the theory that the asteroid that is thought to ha...
Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Research Associate position on fire protection engineering in Imperial College London

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