Summary
Harry is a first-year postgraduate researcher in Hazelab at Imperial College London. He also graduated with a mechanical engineering Masters degree from Imperial.
Harry’s PhD research implements experimentation to study and understand how fire behaves in timber buildings, specifically large open-plan compartments such as office spaces. He has been a part of four of the largest timber compartment fire experiments, CodeRed. This work is funded by Arup and ESPRC.
His Masters thesis focused on another hot topic in fire safety science: wildfires. He developed a toolkit called PERIL (Population Evacuation TRigger aLgorithm), that generates evacuation trigger perimeters for communities in the wildland-urban interface. This was done in collaboration with members of NFPA, Lund University and Movement Strategies.
Bibliography
Harry is from Fleet, Hampshire. He graduated from the Imperial Mechanical Engineering Department in 2019, having collaborated with Hazelab on a number of coursework and outreach projects.
During his undergraduate life, Harry was the academic departmental representative for two consecutive years, during which he helped improve the undergraduate course, working with both staff and students.
Harry is a subwarden in student halls, supporting student welfare, and organising and running events for students.
Publications
Software
Mitchell H, Rein G, 2020, Matlab Code for PERIL (Population Evacuation tRigger aLgorithm)