Thursday, 27 October 2016

Fancy dresses and flaws in flammability requirements

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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 requirem...
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Tuesday, 27 September 2016

Acceptance Speech of the 2016 Lund Award

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27th of September, Denver, Colorado. SFPE Conference and Expo. by Dr Guillermo Rein, Imperial College London. At the podium delivering...
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 ...