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Ricky Carvell
Dr Ricky Carvel Senior Lecturer in Fire Dynamics in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He has previously worked for the University of Aberystwyth, Heriot-Watt University, and International Fire Investigators and Consultants.
He is editor of the ‘Handbook of Tunnel Fire Safety’ (2nd Edition, ICE Publishing, 2011; 3rd Edition in pre-planning) and was associate editor of Fire Safety Journal (2009-2015). He has been working in the field of fire science and engineering for over 25 years. In 2018 he was awarded the ISTSS Achievement Award for his work in tunnel fire safety.
His research work is focussed on the interaction between fires, ventilation and water sprays in both tunnels and buildings. In 2004 he was awarded a PhD from Heriot-Watt University for his thesis “Fire Size in Tunnels”. He has also been involved into research in dust explosions, ignition, material flammability, fire-fighting, fire suppression, lithium-ion battery fires, fire investigation and CFD modelling. He has authored more than 20 journal papers and more than 40 conference papers.
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