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Thesis presentations
You are hereby invited to attend the thesis presentations on 15 and 16 November in V:Brand, which is located in the V-building at the Faculty of Engineering. Please see the attached invitation. Invitation 15-16 November
SFPE Awards
At the annual meeting in Savannah in October, the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) awarded Robert Jönsson with the 2012 John L. Bryan Mentoring award. SFPE writes on their blog: The award is named after John L. Bryan who established the University of Maryland Department of Fire Protection Engineering and served as the as the Department [...]
Award winning article
Congratulations to Per Becker, Assistant professor at the Department of Fire Safety Engineering and Systems Safety, who recently received a Highly Commended Award from Emerald for his paper Whose risks? Gender and the ranking of hazards in the journal Disaster Prevention and Management. The paper is available for download here, and more information [...]
PhD Positions in Denmark
Five Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) are offered a position by the Danish Institute of Fire and Security Technology. The ESRs are to carry out research with focus on creating computing simulation methodologies, tools and models to increase the usability of fire tests conducted on building products and construction elements which act as fire barriers [...]
Thesis presentations
You are hereby invited to attend the thesis presentations on 7 September in V:Brand, which is located in the V-building at the Faculty of Engineering. Please see the attached invitation. Invitation
Welcome to PhD thesis defence and Systems Safety workshop on 15 June
On 15 June Johan Bergström will defend his PhD thesis entitled: "Escalation: Explorative studies of high-risk situations from the theoretical perspectives of complexity and joint cognitive systems". The faculty opponent will be Professor Erik Hollnagel. The defence seminar will take place at 10:15 in lecture hall V:B, the V-building, John Ericssons [...]
Thesis presentations
You are hereby invited to attend the thesis presentations on 24-25 May in V:Brand in the V-building at the Faculty of Engineering. Please see the attached invitation. Invitation
Presentations of Fire Safety Evaluation reports
On 14-15 May the students of the Fire Safety Evaluation course will present their reports. The presentations are open for all and you are most welcome to attend at these days. The presentations are held in the V-building at the Faculty of Engineering, more specifically V:B and V:C. See the attached invitation for more information. Invitation
RIB - Integrated Decision Support System
The computer software RIB, developed by The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, has now been made available for all students and employees at Lund University. Please visit any of the following links to get access to RIB, and read the attached instructions (Swedish). https://program.ldc.lu.se/campus/ http://www.student.lu.se/ Instructions
Publication of research posters
Starting today the Department of Fire Safety Engineering and Systems Safety will publish research posters on our website. We think this is a great way of sharing our research with other researchers and practitioners in the field. Please see this page for the posters that have been made available online.