Burning Questions with an International Fire Safety Expert
3:00pm - 4:00pm /
Monday 28th April 2025
/ Venue: Crush Hall Harrison Hughes Building
Type: Seminar /
Category: Department
- Martina Manes
- Suitable for: University of Liverpool Students
- Admission: Free
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This interactive session for students will provide an opportunity to discuss personal and professional development with Prof Luke Bisby, an international expert on fire and structure.
Prof Luke Bisby is Personal Chair of Fire and Structures within the School of Engineering at The University of Edinburgh. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Fire Safety Journal (Elsevier) and has extensive experience of fire safety and structural engineering research and consultancy, instruction as expert witness, university teaching and administration, promotion of public understanding of science and engineering, and wide-ranging professional activities. His work has been particularly influential at the interface between structural engineering and fire safety engineering, and Luke advises industrial and government fire safety research organisations and regulatory bodies internationally. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institutions of Fire Engineers and Structural Engineers, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. For 7+ years, Luke was instructed as an expert witness to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. His work for the Inquiry included a detailed forensic study of the external fire at Grenfell Tower, a large programme of experiments to identify and characterise the reaction-to-fire and system behaviours of materials and products used within Grenfell Tower’s external cladding system, and a detailed historical study of fire safety regulation, testing, and previous cladding fires in the UK. Luke has also previously appeared as a presenter in a range of engineering documentary television series, including “Impossible Engineering”, “When Big Things Go Wrong”, and most recently “Disaster Autopsy”.
Prof Luke Bisby is Personal Chair of Fire and Structures within the School of Engineering at The University of Edinburgh. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Fire Safety Journal (Elsevier) and has extensive experience of fire safety and structural engineering research and consultancy, instruction as expert witness, university teaching and administration, promotion of public understanding of science and engineering, and wide-ranging professional activities. His work has been particularly influential at the interface between structural engineering and fire safety engineering, and Luke advises industrial and government fire safety research organisations and regulatory bodies internationally. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Institutions of Fire Engineers and Structural Engineers, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. For 7+ years, Luke was instructed as an expert witness to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. His work for the Inquiry included a detailed forensic study of the external fire at Grenfell Tower, a large programme of experiments to identify and characterise the reaction-to-fire and system behaviours of materials and products used within Grenfell Tower’s external cladding system, and a detailed historical study of fire safety regulation, testing, and previous cladding fires in the UK. Luke has also previously appeared as a presenter in a range of engineering documentary television series, including “Impossible Engineering”, “When Big Things Go Wrong”, and most recently “Disaster Autopsy”.