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Senior lecturer in Fire Safety Engineering focusing on Fire Dynamics
As we are expanding, we have opened a position as senior lecturer/associate professor in Fire Safety Engineering with a focus on Fire Dynamics. The position is a permanent position combining research and teaching. From the work description: The focus of the employment is linked to fire development and fire protection, mainly within the built [...]
We are very happy to be able to offer a post-doc position on fire safety focusing on material behaviour!
From the work description: "In the project you will determine the fire properties of products/materials based on data from microscale testing and determination of properties of the materials of which a product is based on. The prediction of the fire properties of the product/material are based on correlations studies and modelling. Novel [...]
Master Thesis presentations
We have our Master Thesis presentation for our Swedish students and our international program IMFSE in May. You can see all the presenters, titles and timeslots in the schedule (online). Welcome!
SVT visiting the Helsingborg Safety Hub
The Swedish Television SVT has visited the new Helsingborg Safety Hub being established at Campus Helsingborg, thanks to a strategic grant by Lund University. This effort has the goal to approach a wide range of topics related to safety and security. It is led by Enrico Ronchi at the Division of Fire Safety Engineering, Carmelo D'Agostino from [...]
Ann-Kristin Dugstad joining the division
During Spring 2024, Ann-Kristin Dugstad joined the division of Fire Safety Engineering to work in the domain of wildfire evacuation. Ann-Kristin is currently enrolled as a PhD student at the Technical University of Munich and her key research interest is route choice in emergency evacuation. She will work under the supervision of Dr Enrico Ronchi [...]
Big investment in Battery Safety Research at Lund University
On September 8th 2023, the Swedish government announced an effort to strengthen research and education in electrification and batteries. Lund University has decided to focus a substantial part of this, 2.3 M€, on battery safety research – including 500 k€ in a testing facility. The division of fire safety engineering is a central node in this [...]
Thesis presentation March 7, 2024
We will have Master thesis presentations on March 7. You can join both online and in the V-building at LTH in Lund. Agenda and information about how to join (online). Very Welcome!
9th IMFSE FSE day in Lund
On the 15/02 our Division hosted the 9th IMFSE Fire Safety Engineering day. This event offered a unique opportunity to our IMFSE students to meet with the organizations supporting the IMFSE programme. The topic of the day was "The importance of data in Fire Safety Engineering" and included presentations and a panel debate on this topic moderated by [...]
We have a new lab! The Helsingborg Safety Hub
Lund University has granted 3 million SEK strategic funding to our division to support the development of a new lab space led by Enrico Ronchi in the domain of safety in Campus Helsingborg, part of Lund University. The Helsingborg Safety Hub is developed in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine (Giedre Gefenaite and Kristoffer Mattisson) and [...]
Our new PhD student, José Antonio Morales Mere
José is our newest PhD student at the Division of Fire Safty Engineering. He specializes in the application of smart firefighting techniques and the simulation of fire tunnels for comprehensive risk assessment. His background in academia holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechatronics Engineering, a First Master's degree in Engineering Management and [...]