Recently completed UQ SFPE Student Chapter seminar series on wildfires
The UQ SFPE Student Chapter has prepared a program with a number of topics for 2022. For the first topic the chapter held three webinars related to wildfires, which are summarized below and may be of interest for some of our readers. Dr Alex Filkov – Wildfires and Dynamic Fire Behaviours The first seminar featured Dr Alexander Filkov from the University of Melbourne who covered different topics related to the wildfires and dynamic fire behaviours. Alex provided a comprehensive review on Dynamic Fire Behaviour (DFB) knowledge in a way that connects the weather, fuel and topographic factors that contribute to … Continue reading Recently completed UQ SFPE Student Chapter seminar series on wildfires
Dr Vinny Gupta
We are pleased to announce that Dr Vinny Gupta is joining the Fire Safety Engineering Research Group at The University of Queensland as a part-time lecturer. Vinny will provide valuable teaching contributions in the fields of fire dynamics and combustion. His expertise in these subjects, especially on the fire dynamics for large open-plan compartments where fires can transition between different modes of spread, which was the focus of his recently completed PhD at UQ, make him a perfect addition to our team. During his PhD studies, Vinny gained extensive experience in broad areas such as large-scale mass timber compartment fire … Continue reading Dr Vinny Gupta
UQ Fire research featured
The University of Queensland has recently produced a story featuring the research activities developed by the UQ Fire Safety Engineering Research group. This story includes conversations with UQ Fire academics regarding Queensland’s efforts to address the cladding crisis and strategic … Continue reading UQ Fire research featured
UQ Fire research in TED Talks
In yet another highlight of her research carrier, Carmen Gorska presented her research on self-extinguishing timber buildings at the popular and insightful TED Talks. At the TEDxUQ sessions that took place on Saturday 10th of August 2019, Carmen took the main … Continue reading UQ Fire research in TED Talks
Dr Felix Wiesner
Dr Felix Wiesner joined the Fire Safety Engineering research group at The University of Queensland (UQ) as a lecturer in timber engineering in October. His research, which is funded by the National Centre for Timber Durability, will investigate the effectiveness … Continue reading Dr Felix Wiesner
Short course on Structural Fire Engineering at IIT Delhi
Dr David Lange and Dr Cristian Maluk spent two weeks at the end of 2019 delivering a short course in Fire Safety Engineering at IIT Delhi in India. Continue reading Short course on Structural Fire Engineering at IIT Delhi
2019 NIST Christmas Tree competition
Each year, the UMD Department of Fire Protection Engineering supported by NIST hosts its Annual Christmas Tree Fire Safety Demonstration. The demo consists of a series of live-fire experiments on both natural and artificial Christmas trees to show the burning … Continue reading 2019 NIST Christmas Tree competition
APFIS 2019
Written by Abdulrahman Zaben. The seventh Asia-Pacific Conference on FRP in Structures (APFIS-2019) took place in Gold Cost, Australia last week. The conference aims to provide a forum for academics, researchers, practitioners and industry in the Asia-Pacific region and elsewhere … Continue reading APFIS 2019
APCISS 2019
Vinny Gupta, Mohamad Lutfi Ramadhan and Juan Cuevas attended the 1st Asia-Pacific Combustion Institute Summer School (APCISS) hosted last month in Viña del Mar and at Federico Santa Maria Technical University in Valparaiso, Chile. The summer school involved over 60 … Continue reading APCISS 2019
Summer Graduation 2019
Congratulations to our 2019 Summer Graduates! We are very proud of our newest graduates who have completed the Fire programs at UQ and graduates who have completed Research Thesis in Fire Engineering. Aayush Sharma – BE-ME (Fire) Sam Nothard – … Continue reading Summer Graduation 2019
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