Role
- Scientist at RISE Fire Research AS
Education
- PhD in Fire Safety Engineering (UGent)
- MSc in Fire Safety Engineering (UoE, UGent, LU)
- BSc in Fire Safety Engineering (PUT)
Competence
- Fire experiments involving pyrolysis, flame spread, liquid pool fires, gas burners, water mist, thermal radiation, compartment fires, electric vehicles, thermal runaway, flammability limits, and spontaneous combustion
- Measurements of heat release rate, smoke production, opacity, thermal radiation, total heat flux, temperatures of solids and gases, concentration of gases, and gas velocities
- Simulations with STEPS and SIMULEX for pedestrian modeling, GPyro for pyrolysis modeling, FireFOAM and FDS for fire modeling, and MATLAB scripting for graphic user interfaces
- Optimization using inverse modeling and machine learning
Publications
Publications
Publications
- A Simulation Tool to Quantify the Consequences of Fires on Board Ro-Ro Ships
- Experimental Study of Fire Containment Using Fabric Curtains in a Reduced-Scale…
- Experimental study of fire containment using water mist curtains in a reduced-s…
- The sustainability challenge of product information quality in the design and c…
- Recent developments in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and smart ventilation technologies
- Quantification of radiative attenuation provided by fire hose nozzles
- Influence of convective heat transfer modelling in CFD simulations of upward fl…
- Experimental study of radiation attenuation using water curtains in a reduced-s…
- Experimental Study of Corner Wall Fires with One or Two Combustible Walls
- Flame spread and fire behavior in a corner configuration