Editorial Board

Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

Members


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School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, 1221 South Main Street, Moscow, ID 83843, USA
Interests: wildland fire physics; environmental biophysics; wildland fire acoustics; fire-atmosphere interactions and modeling; fire behavior

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School of Highway, Chang’an University, Xi'an 1109, China
Interests: bridge fire; bridge engineering; fire resistance; fire-resistant design
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State Key Laboratory of Fire Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
Interests: combustion kinetics; low-temperature oxidation; soot formation mechanism; theoretical calculations and catalytic combustion

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School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing, China
Interests: pool fire; spill fire; storage tank fires; fire extinguishment and fire risk assessment
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College of Aerospace Science, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
Interests: supersonic combustion; plasma-assisted combustion; optical diagnostics; power and propulsion

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Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia CNT, Via di Vigna Muarata 605, 00143 Rome, Italy
Interests: wildfires from space; remote sensing; calibration; validation; detection techniques; hyperspectral; thermal; active fire; post fire; air quality; machine learning
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Department of Geography, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QE, UK
Interests: fire and the earth system; fire behavior; fire severity

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Department of Geography, Environmental Science and Planning, Faculty of Science and Engineering,University of Eswatini , P.O. Luyengo M205, Eswatini
Interests: environmental science; geographic information science; biogeography; human-environment interactions

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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA
Interests: data assimilation; Bayesian inference; model updating; system identification; structural health monitoring; damage identification nonlinear simulation; computational structural mechanics; structural dynamics; earthquake engineering

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School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Interests: wildfire social science; social vulnerability; climate change adaptation; risk perception and behavior; qualitative methods

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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA
Interests: probabilistic mechanics; sustainable and resilient infrastructure; reliability, risk and life cycle analysis; decision making under uncertainty; performance assessment of deteriorating systems; modeling of natural hazards and societal impact; ethical, social and legal dimensions of risk; optimal strategies for natural hazard mitigation and disaster recovery; impact of climate change; engineering ethics
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Tribhuvan Institute of Environment and Development Sciences, Nalanda University Centre, Neemrana, Rajasthan 301705, India
Interests: fire, landslide and other disasters; ecosystem restoration, aquatic and wetland ecosystems management; biodiversity conservation; environmental impact assessment

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School of Engineering and Information Technology, University of New South Wales Canberra, Canberra, ACT 2610, Australia
Interests: CFD; thermodynamic analysis; waste to energy; thermofluids; environmental sustainability
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Lab of Forest Management and Remote Sensing, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: forest fires; land-use/land-cover mapping; pre-fire planning and post-fire assessment; remote sensing; GIS; forest management
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Department of Forest, Rangeland and Fire Sciences, University of Idaho, 875 Perimeter Drive, Moscow, ID 83844, USA
Interests: restoration ecology; riparian ecology and management; forest stand dynamics and ecology; wildland fire ecology and management
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1. Ex—Vice Rector of Academic Affairs, Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics, Cyprus University of Technology, 3036 Limassol, Cyprus
2. Coordinator of the Excelsior H2020 Teaming Project, Remote Sensing and GeoEnvironment Lab, Department of Civil Engineering and Geomatics, Cyprus University of Technology, 3036 Limassol, Cyprus
3. Managing Director, Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence, 3012 Limassol, Cyprus
Interests: earth observation; remote sensing; GIS; geo-information for natural and built environment; hazards
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Interests: turbulent flows; reacting flows and combustion; computational fluid dynamics; geophysical turbulence; propulsion; vortex dynamics
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Turbulence and Energy Systems Laboratory (teslacu.org) Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA
Interests: high-fidelity simulations; physics-based combustion; computational fluid dynamics
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Natural Hazards Research Australia, RMIT University, 56 Cardigan St, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia
Interests: bush/wildfire social science; hazards adaptation; disaster risk reduction; vulnerability; community-led; First Nations; human geography

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Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety, Tampa, FL 4347, USA
Interests: fire protection; mathematical modeling; machine learning; image processing; natural hazard

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Air Monitoring Scientist, Canada University of Alberta, Alberta Environment and Parks, Edmonton, AB T5J 5C6, Canada
Interests: sensors; instrumentation; measurement systems calibration; remote sensing; data processing; algorithm developments; modeling

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Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA
Interests: resilient communities; reliability analysis; performance-based design; cascading multi-hazard analysis; fire engineering; and earthquake engineering

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Institute for Geography and Sustainability, University of Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Interests: colonial fire policy; discourses on fire; political ecology of fire; swidden livelihoods; community-based fire management; Madagascar
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Wonder Labs, San Jose, CA 95128, USA
Interests: social dimensions of disaster; care; equity; justice
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College of Engineering, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
Interests: fire behavior; gas phase turbulent combustion; computational modeling of fire transitions; large eddy simulations; flame spread experiments

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United States Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, 5775 Hwy 10 W, Missoula, MT 59808, USA
Interests: burning rates; convection ignition; physics of fire spread
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B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Interests: aviation systems safety assessment and monitoring; risk informed healthcare system management; reliability growth tracking and prediction methods; information systems security risk management

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Belfast School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Ulster University, Belfast Campus, York Street, Belfast BT15 1AP, UK
Interests: fire resistance

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Great Basin Rangelands Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, Reno, NV 89512, USA
Interests: rangelands; wildfire; wildland fire ecology and management
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