Our Team
Faculty
Michael Gollner
Associate Professor and Deb Faculty Fellow
Carlos Fernandez-Pello
Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School
Dwi Marhaendro Jati Purnomo
Postdoctoral Scholar
Maryam Zamanialaei
Postdoctoral Scholar
Wuquan Cui
Postdoctoral Scholar
Shaorun Lin
Postdoctoral Scholar
Christina Liveretou
PhD Student
Joseph Dowling
PhD Candidate
Maria Theodori
PhD Candidate
Kelly Clevenson
Ph.D. Candidate
Mackenzie Conkling
Ph.D. Student
Siyan Wang
PhD Candidate
Bryce Bathras
PhD Student
Jose Rivera
PhD Student
Melanie Earle
PhD Student
Carlos Fernandez-Pello
Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School
- ferpello@me.berkeley.edu
Dwi Marhaendro Jati Purnomo
Postdoctoral Scholar
- dwimjpurnomo@berkeley.edu
- Research Areas: wildland fire behavior, WUI fire
Wuquan Cui
Postdoctoral Scholar
- wuquancui@berkeley.edu
- Research Areas: Emissions of wildland fires, smoldering and flaming combustion, fire whirls
Christina Liveretou
PhD Student
- christina.liveretou@berkeley.edu
- Research areas: limiting oxygen concentrations of fuels in sub-atmospheric pressures; effect of oxygen, pressure, and external radiant heat flux on flame spread rate in (sometimes simulated) microgravity environments.
Joseph Dowling
PhD Candidate
- joseph_dowling@berkeley.edu
- Research Areas: Fire Whirls, Emissions from Flame, Fire Safety Science
Maria Theodori
PhD Candidate
- theodori@berkeley.edu
- Research Areas: Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires, Wildland Fire Behavior
Kelly Clevenson
Ph.D. Candidate
- kclevenson@berkeley.edu
- Research Areas: fire behavior, fire spread
Mackenzie Conkling
Ph.D. Student
NSF GRFP Fellow
- mackenzie.conkling@berkeley.edu
- Research Areas: Firebrands
Siyan Wang
PhD Candidate
- siyan_wang@berkeley.edu
- Research Areas: Emissions from WUI & forest fires
Bryce Bathras
PhD Student
NSF GRFP and Chancellors Fellow
- bryce_bathras@berkeley.edu
- Research Areas: Emissions from Fires, Flame Spread
Jose Rivera
PhD Student
- jose_rivera@berkeley.edu
Melanie Earle
PhD Student
- melanie_earle@berkeley.edu
- Research Areas: WUI Fire Spread Modeling
Madeleine Bardy
Gurnoor Bhatti
Lilly Etzenbach
Ronaldo Lopez-Tucux
Sebastián Quiroz
Kimia Sattary
Stephen Salazar
Postdoctoral Scholars at the University of California, Berkeley
Xiaoyu Ju, Ph.D., 2023 (First Position, Research Professor, USTC)
Luca Carmignani, Ph.D., 2021 (First Position, UC Cooperative Extension, Assistant Fire Advisor)
Sriram Bharath Hariharan, Ph.D., 2021 (First Position, Lucid Motors)
Franz Richter, Ph.D., 2020-2021 (First Position, McKinsey & Company)
Jeanette Cobian-Iñiguez, Ph.D., 2020-2021 (First Position, Assistant Professor, UC Merced)
Mohammadhadi Hajilou, Ph.D., 2021-2022 (First Position, Assistant Professor, University of Portland)
Charles Scudiere, Ph.D., 2021-2022 (First Position, Lucid Motors)
Postdoctoral Scholars at the University of Maryland
Hamed Farahani, Ph.D., 2017-2018 (First Position, Postdoctoral Scholar at WPI, Current Position, FM Global)
Ali Tohidi, Ph.D., 2016-2017 (First Position, One Concern, Current position, Assistant Professor San Jose State University)
Mohammadhadi Hajilou, Ph.D., 2019-2020 (First Position, Senior Engineer at GexCon)
Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley
Priya Garg, Ph.D., 2023 “An experimental study of smoldering-to-flaming transition and emissions from wildland vegetative fuels” (First Position, Senior Test Engineer, Rivian)
Ph.D. at the University of Maryland
Ajay V. Singh, Ph.D., 2015 “A Fundamental Study of Boundary Layer Diffusion Flames” (First Position, Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University. Current Position, Assistant Professor, IIT Kanpur)
Colin H. Miller, Ph.D., 2017 “Fluid Dynamics of Boundary Layer Combustion“.
Wei Tang, Ph.D., 2017 “Forward Heating in Wind-Driven Flames,” (First Position: National Institute for Standards and Technology, Wildland-Urban Interface Group, Current position, FPE at NIOSH)
Pietro Maisto, Ph.D., 2019 “Turbulent Transport and Mixing of Unconfined and Sloped Fire-Induced Flows Using a Laser-Assisted Saltwater Modeling Technique” (First Position, Postdoctoral Scholar, Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland).
Sriram Bharath Hariharan, Ph.D., 2020, “Experimental Investigations and Scaling Analyses of Whirling Flames” (Current Position, Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley)
Raquel Hakes Weston-Dawkes, Ph.D., 2021 (First Position, postdoctoral scholar, Sandia National Laboratories)
Xingyu Ren, Ph.D., 2022 (First Position, Thermal analysis engineer, Rivian)
Sriram Bharath Hariharan, Ph.D., 2021 (First Position, Lucid Motors)
Masters of Science at the University of California, Berkeley
Michael Wright
Andy Rodriguez
Masters of Science at the University of Maryland
Brian Hall, M.S., 2014 “Transient Fire Load on Aluminum Ferries”
Zhao Zhao, M.S., 2014 “Flame Spread Through Wooden Dowels”
Daniel Gorham, M.S., 2014 “Studying Wildland Fire Spread Using Stationary Burners”
Colin Miller, M.S., 2014 “Upward Flame Spread Over Discreet Fuels”
Brian Cohen, M.S., 2014 “In Situ Burning Alternatives“
Sara Caton, M.S., 2016 “Laboratory Studies on the Generation of Firebrands from Cylindrical Wooden Dowels“
Nathaniel May, M.S., 2017 “Moisture Content Effects on Energy and Emissions Released During Combustion of Pyrophytic Vegetation“.
Raquel Hakes, M.S., 2017 “Thermal Characterization of Firebrand Piles”
Wuquan Cui, M.S. as part of the IMFSE Program, 2017 “Influence of Double-Skinned Facades on Fire Safety.”
Sriram Barath Hariharan, M.S., 2017, “The Structure of the Blue Whirl: A Soot-Free Reacting Vortex Phenomenon.”
Lana Benny, M.S., 2019
Hamed Salehizadeh, M.S., 2019
Evan Sluder, M.S., 2019
Lanford Price, M.S., 2021
Undergraduates at the University of California, Berkeley
Madeleine Bardy, Gurnoor Bhatti, Abhik Dutta, Lilly Etzenbach, Jason Guardado, Ronaldo Lopez-Tucux, Yichi Ma, Andrew Petrak, Sebastián Quiroz, Carina Romerod, Kimia Sattary, Katrina Sharonin, Stephen Salazar, Kenny Song, Jingtao Tan, Jacqueline Thibault
Undergraduates at the University of Maryland
Bryce Bathras, Sara Caton, Stephen Ernst, Alicea Fitzpatrick, Daniel Gorham, Erin Griffith, Raquel Hakes, Matthew Kaminow, Kyle Kohler, Seth Lattner, Irene Lemboros, Conor McCoy, Stephanie Poole, Joseph Praydis, Peter Raia, Thomas Roche, Maxwell Scott, Nicole Welch, Matthew Weston-Dawkes
Visiting Graduate Students at UMD
Zhenxiang Tao, Tsinghua University, China, 2018-2019
Xiaoyu Ju, PhD, University of Science and Technology, China, 2018
Lin Jiang, USTC, 2015-2016
Yu Hu, Tsinghua University, China, 2017-18
Kun Zhao, USTC, China, 2016-17
Visiting Undergraduate Students at UMD
Janis Tieck, Mannheim University, Germany, 2018
Jessen Chrisyla Oey, Mannheim University, Germany, 2018
Jan Zimlich, University of Mannheim, Germany, 2015
Jens Triller, University of Mannheim, Germany, 2014-15
Visiting Faculty at UMD
Xinje Huang, Anhuhi University, China, 2016-17
Liu Quiong, Central South University, China, 2016-17
Tao Xu, Shanghai Maritime University, 2019-20
Mark Finney, USFS Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory
Sara McAllister, USFS Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory
Daniel Jimenez, USFS Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory
Antonio L. Sánchez, University of California, San Diego
Xinyan Huang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Yuji Nakamura, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan
Ali Rangwala, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Forman A. Williams, University of California, San Diego, USA
Elaine S. Oran, University of Maryland, USA
Jessica Oakes, Northeastern University