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Paolo Intini - Visiting researcher
Paolo Intini is currently visiting researcher at the division of Fire Safety Engineering, where he will spend three months working in the area of traffic evacuation modelling. Paolo recently obtained his PhD on the topic “Route familiarity in Road Safety” in Environmental, Building Risk and Development from the Technical University of Bari, Italy. [...]
Daniel Nilsson receives Teacher of the Year Award
On 26 April 2017, Daniel Nilsson received the Teacher of the Year Award at the Fire Protection Engineering Program, Lund University. The price is given out by the student association BIIF at their April meeting. Daniel har previously received the Teacher of the Year Award in 2016, 2015, 2012 and 2010. In 2009, he received the Teacher of the Year [...]
Newspaper article on the St Petersburg attacks
Dr Enrico Ronchi and Dr Daniel Nilsson have published an article concerning evacuation in metros discussing the recent St Petersburg attacks in the newspaper The Conversation. This is a newspaper which allows scientists to use scientific findings to increase the general public understanding on issues of relevance to our society. You can read the [...]
ISO TC92 plenary meeting in Tsukuba, Japan
ISO TC92, Fire Safety, had its 31st plenary meeting in Tsukuba Japan on March 31st. The same week all four SCs under TC92 as well as the working groups met in the Tsukuba Center for Institutes and made very good progress. On Sunday March 26th, there were also three workshops organised dealing with data collections and statistics, new work items and [...]
Berit Andersson
Berit Andersson, senior lecturer, and director of undergraduate studies, at the Division of Fire Safety Engineering, retires on March 31. Berit was employed at Lund University in 1978, at the Department of Structural Mechanics. During her first years at the University Berit did extensive experimental research on upholstered furniture. During the [...]
Visiting researcher at Waseda University, Tokyo
Dr Enrico Ronchi has started his visiting researcher stay at the SanoLab of Professor Tomonori Sano at Waseda University in Tokyo (Japan). He will spend three weeks in Japan collaborating to the SanoLab activities concerning evacuation research, with a particular focus on modelling tools for fire safety engineering. This research stay is part of a [...]
Special Issue on Fire Evacuation Modelling
Dr. Enrico Ronchi is currently guest editor in a special issue in Fire Technology on Fire Evacuation Modelling. Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work on the topic by August 31st, 2017. More information is available here!
The Fire Laboratory
The Fire Laboratory at the Division of Fire Safety Engineering at Lund University has a long history in fire science and it is of course connected to the education of fire protection engineers. We recently went through a refurbishment of the building, including the lab, and we are now up and running well at full speed again. The Fire Laboratory is [...]
Register for IAFSS2017
Registration is now open for the 12th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science that is hosted by the division of Fire Safety Engineering. The Symposium is the premier fire safety science meeting in the world, and the number one symposium to visit for fire safety researchers and experts. You do not want to miss this event. Take a look at the [...]
IAFSS Poster
It is now possible to submit poster abstracts for presentation at the IAFSS Symposium. The deadline for submitting poster abstracts is March 31 and notification on acceptance will be given April 15. The Symposium is the premier fire safety science meeting in the world and has been organized triennially since 1985 by the International Association [...]