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Marcus Runefors receives Swedish SFPE award
The Swedish SFPE chapter, BIV, has awarded Dr. Marcus Runefors the 2020 BIV award. Marcus receives the award for his research to improve fire safety for the more vulnerable groups in the Swedish society and for his his work to bring together different professionals who must act together to achieve such improvements. You can read and download Marcus [...]
Abhishek Bhargava defended his PhD thesis
Today, Abhishek Bhargava successfully defended his PhD thesis: "Fire Behaviour of selected polymeric materials". Professor Serge Bourbigot, Université de Lille was the faculty opponent. The dissertation was conducted partly online, since the opponent and all but one person in the examination committee were participating remotely. Even so, there [...]
PhD dissertation on fire behaviour of polymeric materials
On March 20th at 09.15, Abhishek Bhargava will defend his PhD-thesis "Fire behavior of selected polymeric materials - Numerical modelling and validation using microscale and bench scale test methods". The act will take place in lecture hall V:B (at John Ericssons väg 1 in Lund) and will start with a 30 minutes presentation followed by a short break [...]
Two new doctors in Fire Safety Engineering
This week we have seen two successful PhD thesis defenses at the division. On Wednesday (February 26) Frida Vermina Plathner defended her thesis: "Limiting Conditions for a Sustained Flame over Condensed Fuels - Analysis by Experiments and Stagnant Layer Theory". Professor Marc Janssens, Southwest Research Institute, USA was faculty opponent. On [...]
PhD thesis on fires in cavities, February 28
On February 28th at 09.15, Karlis Livkiss will defend his PhD-thesis "Fires in Narrow Construction Cavities - Fire Dynamics and Material Fire Performance". The faculty opponent is prof. Thomas Rogaume, Université de Poitiers, France. The act will take place in lecture hall V:B (at John Ericssons väg 1 in Lund) and will start with a 30 minutes [...]
A new successful PhD defense
Jonathan Gehandler successfully defended his PhD thesis "Fire safety design of road tunnels" on February 6. Jonathan presented his work and a interesting discussion with the opponent, Dr Brian Meacham followed! The thesis (excluding papers) can be found here. Congratulations Dr. Gehandler!
PhD thesis defence on ignition on February 26
On February 26th at 09.15, Frida Vermina Plathner will defend her PhD-thesis "Limiting Conditions for a Sustained Flame over Condensed Fuels - Analysis by Experiments and Stagnant Layer Theory". The act will take place in lecture hall V:D (at John Ericssons väg 1 in Lund) and will start with a 30 minutes presentation followed by a short break [...]
Karlis nailed his PhD thesis
Today Karlis Livkiss, industrial PhD student at DBI, nailed his PhD thesis, Fires in Narrow Construction Cavities, to the division wall. Karlis will defend his thesis in an open seminar on February 28. More information about the defence will be posted in a couple of weeks.
We got a new doctor!
Yesterday Marcus Runefors successfully defended his PhD thesis "Fatal Residential Fires - Prevention and Response". The event was open to the public and more than 60 people attended the defense! The opponent was Dr. Tuula Hakkarainen, VTT Finland! Congratulations Dr. Runefors
Thesis defence on fire safety design of road tunnels on February 6
On February 6th at 13.00, Jonathan Gehandler will defend his PhD-thesis "Fire safety design of road tunnels". The act will take place in lecture hall V:D (at John Ericssons väg 1 in Lund) and will start with a 30 minutes presentation. The entire dissertation normally takes two hours. The entire session will be performed in English. After the [...]