It was a pleasure to welcome the new students to the Building Technology Master’s programme. Simo (program director) gave the introductory lecture. After that the students had orientation orienteering around the department, during which Kai told them about FSE, and … Continue reading →

Dr. Kaiyuan Li visited the HazeLab (Fire) group in Imperial College London under the support from COST Action FP1404 and gave a lecture on modeling pyrolysis of charring materials.   Posted by Kaiyuan

Dr. Kaiyuan Li attended these two conferences and gave a talk on FDS in Chongqing and presented a paper co-authored with Simo on Char cracking in Seoul. Posted by Kaiyuan

We are looking for a new enthusiastic member to our team to develop the computational methods for thermal radiation in fires. It was year 2000 when I was sent from VTT to work as a guest researcher at NIST/BFRL. Within … Continue reading →

Simo, Rahul, and Kai-Yuan Li attended the NFSD 2016 conference last week in Copenhagen. Simo and Rahul gave presentations on the PAHAHUPA project (pressure maanagement), and Kai about char cracking experiments and modelling. The conference was very well organized – … Continue reading →

Deepak Paudel joined the Fire Safety Engineering research group as a doctoral student. His research project will focus on the fire barrier performance analyses and the evaluation of modelling uncertainties in buildings and nuclear power plants. He received his MSc in … Continue reading →

Alltogether 14 students passed the Fire simulation -course this spring. The course was about fire and evacuation simulations, focusing on the simulation technology. Congratulations to all our active students! In the final project of the course, the students had to … Continue reading →

We have published open calls for following positions: Doctoral Candidate in Simulation of Fire Barriers, deadline for the applications March 22nd, 2016: aalto.fi/fi: http://www.aalto.fi/fi/about/careers/jobs/view/685/ aalto.fi/en: http://www.aalto.fi/en/about/careers/jobs/view/685/ Master thesis on the fire safety of the energy-efficient buildings (Aalto University students), deadline … Continue reading →

Dr. Kaiyuan Li has been invited together with 14 other European experts to the expert meeting on numerical simulation in terms of fire safe use of bio based building within COST Action FP1404 – Fire Safe Use of Bio-Based Building … Continue reading →

Aalto! Fire Safety Engineering team is coming to life. Our current members are Simo Hostikka (Associate Professor), Kaiyuan Li (Research Fellow), Rahul Kallada Janardhan (Doctoral student), and Pekka Huhtala (Research Trainee). We are part of the Aalto University’s Department of … Continue reading →