Congratulations to our 2020 Winter Graduates!
The July 2020 graduation (held online due to COVI-19 restrictions) had the following students being awarded degrees for completion of their studies in Fire programs at The University of Queensland.
Doctor of Philosophy
- Dr Aaron Bolanos was awarded a PhD with a thesis entitled “Fire and structural performance of Structural Insulated Panels” supervised by Dr Cristian Maluk, Dr Juan Hidalgo, and Prof. Jose Torero (now at UCL, UK).
https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2020.733
- Dr Carmen Gorska was awarded a PhD with a thesis entitled “Fire dynamics in multi-scale timber compartments” supervised by Dr Juan Hidalgo, Prof. Jose Torero (now at UCL, UK), and Dr Cristian Maluk.
https://doi.org/10.14264/uql.2020.795
Master of Engineering Science in Fire Safety Engineering
- Sai Murugan Pandit was awarded a MEngSc with a thesis entitled “A novel methodology for the analysis of fire spread modes in open-plan compartments” supervised by Dr Juan Hidalgo.
- Wenxuan Wu was awarded a MEngSc with a thesis entitled “Exploring the Advantages and Disadvantages to using a new “Rules of Thumb” method in Structural Fire Engineering” supervised by Dr Cristian Maluk.
Graduate Certificate in Fire Safety
- Gary Hall
- Darren Herden
- Scott Munro
- Christopher Ryan
- Anthony Schofield
- Stephen Thuell
- Mark Vaughan





