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Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in the field of fire science and artificial intelligence funded by EPSRC and Arup. fpl.fs.fed.us The objective of the PhD thesis is to understand ho...

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Applications are invited for a Research Associate in the field of fire science and engineering at Imperial College London, UK. The Research Associates will join Imperial Hazelab, the multidiscipl...

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Applications are invited for several Research Associates in the field of fire science and engineering at Imperial College London, UK. The Research Associates will join Imperial Hazelab, the multi...

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Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in the field of fire science with Prof Guillermo Rein at Imperial College London. Cross-laminated timber: the future of buildings? Photo: Watts&...

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2013 facade fire in Grozny. Photo from huffingtonpost Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in the field of fire science funded by EPSRC and Arup. The objective of the research project i...

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Open Letter to the Commission: Without understanding of fire, protection of citizens cannot be guaranteed by Guillermo Rein on Scribd Dear EU Commissioners, Fire in our forests or in our building...

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16th of November, Long Beach, California, 2nd International Smoke Symposium, International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF). by Dr Guillermo Rein, Imperial College London. Guillerm...

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I am fortunate to have been interviewed by Publons on my views about peer review and scientific progress. I took the opportunity to highlight that peer review has an essential constructive role i...

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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 requirements for children's fancy dresses. It was pro...

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27th of September, Denver, Colorado. SFPE Conference and Expo. by Dr Guillermo Rein, Imperial College London. At the podium delivering the acceptance speech in Dever. Photo by M Stromgren. I am h...

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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. With a total budget of €2m and 5 years ahead, I will be ...

http://guillermo-rein.blogspot.com/2016/06/erc-haze-reducing-burden-of-smouldering.html

During 2015, Hazelab grew with two new PhD students who joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yuqi Hu and Franz Richter. Yuqi Hu is from China. He became a Safety Engineer from the Chi...

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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 is a short piece, just 3 min long, and it can he heard h...

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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 artistic work. I always want to build on this issue and en...

http://guillermo-rein.blogspot.com/2016/04/fins-and-candles-creative-contests.html

The Fire Protection Engineering magazine has recently published our article reporting exciting research on the theme of smart buildings and fire protection. In this work, sponsored by Chief Donal...

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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 extent is staggering. The dry season is not over and NASA satell...

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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 II for the Chinese President Xi Jinping. This is a traditi...

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Article reprinted with permission from the Combustion Institute.    by Guillermo Rein, Imperial College London, UK and Naian Liu, University of Science and Technology, China Wildfires i...

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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 Society of Fire Protection Engineers and sponsored by H+H...

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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. 2013 facade fire in Grozny. Photo from huffingtonpos...

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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 understanding of how wildfires spread. In doing so, I have...

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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 for structural design has been published in Structures (journal of ISt...

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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 can watch the interview here. "The smaller the wood pieces...

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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 European Symposium on Fire Safety Science. Visiting stud...

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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 will fund our summer collaboration with the group of Prof. Ann ...

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