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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 [...]
We have a guest from China that will be here for a year, doing research!
My name is Zhengda Guo, from the State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China. My main research direction is wire fires. I came to the division of fire safety engineering of Lund University for a one-year exchange program in January this year. My main plan this year is to understand the research direction [...]
PhD course on Tunnel Fire Dynamic
The participants and lecturers at the PhD course on Tunnel Fire Dynamic from October 2023 to January 2024 at the Department of Fire Safety Engineering Lund University. The final presentations of the participants project works were done on the Friday 19th of January. Congratulations to all participants for a great efforts and results! Standing from [...]
Thesis presentation January 11th and 12th 2024
We will have Master thesis presentations on January 11th and 12th. You can join both online and in the V-building at LTH in Lund. Agenda and information about how to join (online). Very Welcome!
Thesis presentation December 8th 2023
We will have presentations of student thesis work on December 8th! You can join both online and in the V-building at LTH in Lund. Agenda and information about how to join (online).
International Symposium of Fire Safety Science
The Division of Fire Safety Engineering was well represented at the International Symposium of Fire Safety Science in Tsukuba, Japan. Several papers and poster were presented by people associated with the division. There were also awards presented to our colleagues Margaret McNamee (Forum award), Arthur Rohaert for best student paper and Konrad [...]