SFE @ UGent

Home of the Structural Fire Engineering (SFE) team of Ghent University, Belgium, combining research with SFE services to industry, and providing SFE education to the next generation of fire engineers. The team has specific expertise in using probabilistic methods and risk-based approaches. Team Members: - Andrea Franchini - Md Maidul Islam - Balsa Jovanovic - Ruben Korsten - Ticho Ooms - Mengying Peng - Florian Put - Evelien Symoens - Thomas Thienpont - Ruben Van Coile - Ramin Yarmohammadian Alumni: - Ranjit Kumar Chaudhary - Andrea Lucherini Research projects and focus - Performance-based design of structures and structural elements in natural fires - Post-fire assessment of structures - Multi-dimensional lifetime optimization of structural fire safety - Probabilistic risk assessment in fire safety engineering - Application of advanced surrogate modelling techniques to structural fire engineering (machine learning)