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Dr Francesco Restuccia

Group leader

Reader (Associate Professor) at King's College London.

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Dr Francesca Lugaresi

Research Associate

Lithium-ion battery fire spread modelling.

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Imogen Richards

PhD Student

Fire spread mechanism for wood in varying environmental and ambient conditions.

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Hosein Sadeghi

PhD Student

Multiphysics simulation of lithium-ion battery fires.

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Ally Mamgain

PhD Student

Impact of lithium ion battery fire in a confined subterranean environment.

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Abdullah Rehman

PhD Student

Ignition and fire spread processes in the Wildland Urban Interface.

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Elena Funk

PhD Student

Development of a methodology for the definition of battery fire scenarios

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Anton Pustygin (FUSE, Summer 2024) - Faraday Undergraduate Student Experience.

Alvaro Vicente Tarrago (UG, Summer 2024) - Undergraduate Student Research Experience.

Zilong Wang (PhD visiting Student, Apr-Sept 2023) - PhD Exchange from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Dr Alireza Sarmadian (PDRA, 2021-23) - Thermophysical behaviour of a LIB cell during its operation and lifetime, funded by EPSRC Prosperity Partnership.

Alexandra Loja (UG, Summer 2023) - King's Undergraduate Research Fellow.

Matthieu Bou (UG, Summer 2023) - King's Undergraduate Research Fellow.

Ioana Sandu (UG, 2021) - Static Electricity incidents research, funded by NFPA.

Graham Brantley (UG, Summer 2020) - FDS wildfire modelling and development of virtual mechanics teaching lab.

Adham Alkoukou (BEng, 2023-24): Effect of Ignition Source Location and Airflow Velocity on Temperature and Heat Flux .

Zakaria Nur (BEng, 2023-24): Powering Progress: Exploring Diverse Chemistries in Lithium-ion Battery Cycling.

Afrin Basit (BEng, 2023-24): Flaming the Simulation: A Framework on Mesh Optimisation in Fire Dynamic Simulator.

Emir Mukovic (MEng, 2022-23): Lithium-ion battery calendar life and cycle life analysis.

Theodore Nash (BEng, 2022-23): Electric vehicle charge speed optimization for next-gen transport.

Giulio Mosca Toba (BEng, 2022-2023): CPM-HP Coupled BTMS for an Electric Formula Student Battery System.

Huzaifah Khan (BEng, 2022-23): Battery module performance validation of an electric vehicle using different designs of heat exchangers.

Olivia Hackett (BEng, 2022-23): The effects of windspeed and matter accumulation on the propagation of fire over a bed of pine needles.

Sophie Olsson Barnekow (BEng, 2022-23): CFD Relationship between Drag and Cooling on the Battery Pack of a Formula Student Vehicle.

Mengying Yu (BEng, 2022-23): Lithium-ion Battery Thermal-Electrochemical Coupling Full Load Cycle (charge-discharge) Simulation Models.

Hamad Khan(BEng, 2022-23): Experimentally validated thermal-electrochemical models of a high-powered density cylindrical cell .

Mahreen Chaiwalla (BEng, 2022-23): Cooling performance for lithium-ion batteries management.

Mikesh Hirani (BEng, 2022-23): Fire Dynamics Modelling for understanding Wildfire Behaviour.

Emmanuel Dadzie (BEng, 2022-23): Mesh Sensitivity analysis for fire dynamic scenarios.

Yifan Chen (BEng, 2021-22): Mechanistically Informed Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Fire Science.

Zirui Zhao (BEng, 2021-22): Mechanistically Informed Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Fire Science.

Angsi Chen (MSc, 2021-22): Mechanistically Informed Machine Learning and AI in Fire Science for fire supression.

Siqi Ding (MSc, 2021-22): Fire Detection Based on YOLOv5.

Weny Dong (MSc, 2021-22): Mechanistically Informed Machine Learning and AI in Fire Science for self-heating ignition.

Mao Fan (MSc, 2021-22): Mechanistically Informed Machine Learning and AI in Coal Self-heating ignition.

Ming Gao (MSc, 2021-22): Mechanistically Informed Machine Learning and AI in Fire Science for fire supression.

Xuan Liang (MSc, 2021-22): Dynamic path analysis of subway fire emergency evacuation based on ant colony algorithm and A* algorithm.

Yanbo Song (MSc, 2021-22): Dynamic Evacuation Path Planning in Fire based on Fingerprint Positioning and Ant Colony Algorithm.

Yixin Tao (MSc, 2021-22): Mechanistically Informed Machine Learning and AI in Fire Science.

Yixuan Wang (MSc, 2021-22): Mechanistically Informed Machine Learning and AI in Fire Science for evacuation.

Huarui Yang (MSc, 2021-22): Mechanistically Informed Machine Learning and AI in Fire Science for self-heating ignition.

Mac Geoffrey Ajaereh (MSc, 2020-21): Smart Grids - Planning and Optimising Distributed Generation Power Systems with the Use of Renewable Energy Sources.

Noora Al-Kubaisi (MSc, 2020-21): Design renewable energy management system for home.

Hao Chen (MSc, 2020-21): Numerical simulation of underground tunnel fire and personnel escape based on Pyrosim and Pathfinder

Zizhen Feng (MSc, 2020-21): Impact of fire on evacuation under different environmental conditions.

Jiacheng Li (MSc, 2020-21): Forest wildfire spread model based on FDS.

Haoxiang Qu (MSc, 2020-21): Urban Evacuation in Wildfire Condition.

Youssef Sayed (MSc, 2020-21): Assessing the Impact of Varying Fire Exit Width and Agents Capacity on the Evacuation Time.

Zi Ye (MSc, 2020-21): Simulation of Human Evacuating Behaviors in Public Library.

Yifan Sun (MEng, 2020-21): The study of Buoyant plume model of log combustion under different wind condition.

Ceinwen Cheng (MPhys, 2020-21): Developing a Physics-based model for ignition and fire spread of Douglas fir trees using FDS.

Carolina Del Felice (MPhys, 2020-21): Developing a Model for Ignition and Fire Spread of Pine Trees for WUI Fires Using FDS.