Faculty Directory

EDUCATION

• Engineering Degree and M.S. (1985), École Centrale of Paris, France
• Ph.D. (1989), École Centrale of Paris, France

BACKGROUND

• Chair of the Department of Fire Protection Engineering, University of Maryland (2023-present)
• Professor (2014-present), University of Maryland at College Park, MD
• Associate Professor (2001-2014), University of Maryland at College Park, MD
• Guest Researcher (part time) (2005-07), Building and Fire Research Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, MD
• Research Scientist (1999-2001), The George Washington University, DC
• Senior Research Engineer (1993-1999), French Petroleum Institute, France
• Post-doctoral Researcher (1990-1993), Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University, CA.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• US Section of the Combustion Institute
• International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS)
• Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE)
• International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Executive Committees

• At-large Member (2005-07), Arrangements Chair (2007-11), Program Chair (2011-13), Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect (2013-16), Chair (2016-18) and past Chair (2018-20) of the Executive Board of the US Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute (ESSCI). See https://essci.engr.uconn.edu
• Past Chair (2011-13) and member (2013-19) of the Executive Committee of the US Sections of the Combustion Institute (USSCI). See https://www.ussci.org
• Member of the Executive Committee (2009-20) and Vice-Chairman (2014-20), member of the Management Committee (2009-2023), Chair of the Publications Task Group (2022-2023), Trustee (2023-present) of the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS). See https://iafss.org
• Member and past Chair of the “International Fire Safety Consortium” (IFSC), a global network of leading higher education and research institutions focused on fire safety engineering (Univ. of Maryland, 2019-present). See https://intlfire.org

Academic Publishing

• Member of the Editorial Board of Combustion Theory and Modelling, 2008-present
• Member of the Editorial Board of Fire Safety Journal, 2014-present
• Past Member of the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Combustion, 2008-19
• Past Member of the Editorial Board of Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2011-15
• Past Member of the Editorial Board of Combustion and Flame, 2009-14
• Past Member of the Editorial Board of Fire Technology, 2008-13
• Technical reviewer for: Combustion and Flame, Combustion Science and Technology, Combustion Theory and Modeling, Fire Safety Journal, Fire Technology, Journal of Computational Physics, Journal of Fire Sciences, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Propulsion and Power, Journal of Turbulence, Physics of Fluids, Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Fire Safety Science, Progress in Energy and Combustion Science; American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Combustion Institute, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, International Association for Fire Safety Science, National Science Foundation.

Scientific Meetings and Workshops

• Symposium co-Chair for the 14th Symposium of the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS), Tsukuba, Japan, October 2023.

• Symposium co-Chair for the 13th Symposium of the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS), University of Waterloo, Canada, April 2021.

• Co-Chair of the "IAFSS Working Group on Measurement and Computation of Fire Phenomena" (the MaCFP Working Group) endorsed and supported by the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) (2014-present). See http://iafss.org/macfp/
• Program co-Chair of the 12th Symposium of the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS), Lund University, Sweden, 2017.
• Host Committee Chair of the 10th U.S. National Combustion Meeting, University of Maryland, 2017.  See http://blog.umd.edu/combustion2017/
• Co-Chair and Coordinator of the "Fire Research" Colloquium at the 36th International Symposium on Combustion, Seoul, Korea, 2016.
• Co-organizer and co-Chair of a 2-day Workshop entitled “Towards Data-Driven Operational Wildfire Spread Modeling”, organized by WIFIRE, a NSF-sponsored collaborative project between the University of California at San Diego and the University of Maryland (UMD), 2015. See https://drum.lib.umd.edu/handle/1903/17162/
• Program co-Chair of the 11th Symposium of the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS), University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2014.
• Program Chair of the Fall Technical Meeting of the US Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, Clemson University, SC, 2013.
• Host Committee Chair of the 10th Symposium of the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS), University of Maryland, MD, 2011.
• Co-Chair and Coordinator of the "Fire Research" Colloquium at the 33rd International Symposium on Combustion, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2010.
• Member of the Committee on “Building Cyberinfrastructure for Combustion Research”, a study organized by the National Academies’ Board on Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, and Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, funded by AFOSR, NIST, DOE, NASA and ARO (2009-10).
• Arrangement Chair of the Fall Technical Meeting of the US Eastern States Section of the Combustion Institute, University of Maryland, 2009.
• Co-Chair of the “Fire Research” Colloquium at the 32nd International Symposium on Combustion, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2008.
• Organizer and Chair of a 2-day Workshop entitled “A NSF Workshop on Cyber-based Combustion Science”, sponsored by NSF Thermal Systems Program, Division of Chemical and Transport Systems, Directorate for Engineering, 2006.