Sunday, 5 June 2016

ERC HAZE: Reducing the Burden of Smouldering Megafires

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I am delighted to announce that I recently won a Consolidator Grant from European Research Council (ERC) for my group, Imperial Hazelab. Wi...
Thursday, 2 June 2016

Welcome Yuqi and Franz to Imperial Hazelab

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During 2015, Hazelab grew with two new PhD students who joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yuqi Hu and Franz Richter. Yuqi...
Monday, 16 May 2016

Radio interview on technology and the McMurray wildfire

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Last week I was interviewed by Gareth Mitchell for the radio Click of the BBC World Service about the Fort McMurray wildfire in Canada. It ...
Friday, 29 April 2016

Fin's and Candle's Creative Contests

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Engineering can be the most creative profession, but we engineers are in general not the best communicators nor the best at appreciating art...
Monday, 21 March 2016

The Fire Navigator: smoke and flame sensors in smart buildings

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The Fire Protection Engineering magazine has recently published our article reporting exciting research on the theme of smart buildings an...
Thursday, 3 December 2015

Tackling the haze in South-East Asia: a call to COP21 Paris

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Reprint of my original article published first in the blog of The Grantham Institute . Peat fires are raging in Indonesia and their exten...
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...