Bart Merci

Bart Merci
CitizenshipBelgium
Alma materGhent University
Known forFire and smoke dynamics; founding director of the International Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering
AwardsArthur B. Guise Medal (2023); FORUM Mid-Career Researcher Award (2021); Fellow of The Combustion Institute (2019)
Scientific career
FieldsFire safety science, combustion engineering
InstitutionsGhent University, KU Leuven, Technical University of Denmark, University of Science and Technology of China
Thesis Modelling of turbulent non-premixed flames  (2000)

Bart Merci is a professor of Fire Safety Science and Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University . He is the founding director of the International Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering (IMFSE) consortium. He is internationally recognised for his research on fire and smoke dynamics and is the editor-in-chief of Fire Safety Journal.