Research Interests
Fire safety engineering
Active on the development and validation of computer modelling methods for fire-related problems in building and transport applications, spanning combustion, heat transfer, soot and toxic emissions, structural thermal response, sensor-steering and human response. Current research leadership in fire structure coupling in large buildings with travelling fires (RFCS TRAFIR), characterising thermo-mechanical response of composite and steel pressure vessels in fire (EU FCH-JU FireComp), fire safety in modern energy efficient buildings and facade fire (Rockwool), fire modelling using HPC resources (UKCTRF/RFSDTB), intelligent egress based on sensor-linked models (BRE Trust), ICU evacuations (NHS Lothian/Trenton Fire), generalised structural-fire frameworks (OpenSees), glazing in fire, etc.