Guillermo Rein (born May 1975) is a professor of fire science in the Department of

Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

Imperial College London Imperial College London, also known as Imperial, is a Public university, public research university in London, England. Its history began with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who envisioned a Al ...

. His research is focused on

fire Fire is the rapid oxidation of a fuel in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction Product (chemistry), products. Flames, the most visible portion of the fire, are produced in the combustion re ...

combustion Combustion, or burning, is a high-temperature exothermic redox chemical reaction between a fuel (the reductant) and an oxidant, usually atmospheric oxygen, that produces oxidized, often gaseous products, in a mixture termed as smoke. Combustion ...

, and

heat transfer Heat transfer is a discipline of thermal engineering that concerns the generation, use, conversion, and exchange of thermal energy (heat) between physical systems. Heat transfer is classified into various mechanisms, such as thermal conduction, ...

. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal ''

Fire Technology ''Fire Technology'' is a peer-reviewed journal publishing scientific research dealing with fire hazards facing humans and the environment. It publishes original contributions, both theoretical and empirical, that contribute to the solution of probl ...

'' and Fellow of the

Combustion Institute The Combustion Institute is an educational non-profit, international, scientific and engineering society whose purpose is to promote research in combustion science. The institute was established in 1954, and its headquarters are in Pittsburgh, Penn ...

Rein is best known for his contributions to
smouldering Smouldering (British English) or smoldering (American English; see spelling differences) is the slow, flameless form of combustion, sustained by the heat evolved when oxygen directly attacks the surface of a condensed-phase fuel. Many solid ma ...
combustion research in the field of fire science.

Biography

Rein obtained his Industrial Engineering degree at the

ICAI School of Engineering ICAI School of Engineering (''Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería - ICAI'' in Spanish) is the school of engineering of the Comillas Pontifical University, located in Madrid, Spain. ''ICAI'' is the acronym by which the ''Instituto Católico d ...

in 1999. He studied mechanical engineering at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

, and obtained an MSc in 2003 and a PhD in 2005. He taught at the School of Engineering of the

University of Edinburgh The University of Edinburgh (, ; abbreviated as ''Edin.'' in Post-nominal letters, post-nominals) is a Public university, public research university based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Founded by the City of Edinburgh Council, town council under th ...

(2006–2012), where he was a senior lecturer before moving to Imperial College in 2012.

Research

His research mainly focus on

and

wildfire A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned and uncontrolled fire in an area of Combustibility and flammability, combustible vegetation. Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identified as a ...

. He is best known in three areas: polymer and wood ignition; design of fire-resistant structures; and wildfire spread and mitigation. Rein, together with his research group and collaborators, has edited two books, published six book chapters and over 200 journal publications. His current

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is above 60 and citation count is over 12,000 on

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. Rein has been editor-in-chief of the journal ''

'' since 2012. He was associate editor of

Proceedings of the Combustion Institute The ''Proceedings of the Combustion Institute'' are the proceedings of the biennial Combustion Symposium put on by The Combustion Institute. The publication contains the most significant contributions in fundamentals and applications, fundamental ...

from 2013 to 2019; associate editor of Thermal and Mass Transport (

Frontiers of Mechanical Engineering Higher Education Press (HEP) is a publisher in China of university and college-level textbooks, owned by Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. The company's headquarters is in Beijing. HEP was among the world Top 50 publishers. ...

) from 2016; and is on the editorial board of Safety Science and the advisory board of International Journal of Wildland Fire since 2016. He was also on the editorial board of Fire Safety Journal from 2014 to 2017.

Selected awards

* 2009 Hinshelwood Prize *2016 SFPE Lund Award * 2017 The Engineer Collaborate-to-Innovate Prize * 2017 Sugden Award * 2018 Arthur B. Guise Medal *2020 Research Excellence Award

References

External links

Imperial Hazelab's webpage
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