Samuel L. Manzello is a technical advisor at Reax Engineering, Inc. and a visiting professor

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(Japan).

Life and career

Manzello holds B.S. with honors (1996) and PhD (2000) in mechanical engineering from

University of Illinois-Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the Universi ...

. He was awarded

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Graduate Student Research fellowship during his PhD. He carried out experiments in NASA's drop tower and Japan Microgravity Centre's drop tower. He investigated sooting and radiation on droplet combustion in microgravity. After graduation, Manzello joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology as a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow in 2001 and worked for 20 years. He left in 2021, and joined Reax Engineering, Inc, as a technical advisor. He is currently a visiting professor at Institute of Fluid Science,

. He is an associate editor for

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journal. Manzello was the editor of the Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface Fires published in 2020.

Awards and honors

* 2015 Harry C. Biggelstone Award from the

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for a paper "Characterizing Firebrand Exposure from Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires: Results from the 2007

Angora Fire The Angora Fire was a 2007 wind-driven wildfire in El Dorado County, California. It started near North Upper Truckee Road subdivision near Angora Lakes, Fallen Leaf Lake, Echo Lake and South Lake Tahoe, California around 2:15 p.m. on S ...

" This is the first journal paper which investigated the firebrand exposure from wildland-urban interface fires. * 2017 Samuel Wasley Stratton Award, National Institute of Standards and Technology "for his groundbreaking engineering and scientific research on the vulnerabilities of built structures to ignition from wind-driven firebrand showers produced from wildland-urban interface fires". * 2024 Jack Bono Award for Engineering Communication from

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for a paper "Use of Unmanned Aerial Systems in Outdoor Firefighting".

References

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