Dr Matthew Bonner of the Imperial College London is one of the leading scientists touching on the subject of the fire safety of facades. His flavour is tackling the complexity through big data analyses and developing new ways to use AI to help us in future. His research has started few months before the Grenfell, and the tragedy has definitely made more eyes follow his studies. I think he has passed the test and provided useful knowledge that was a starting point for multiple follow up projects.

I didn't mention this in the episode, but this research got Matt the 2020 SFPE Student Scholar Award, and he kind of landed on the first page of Financial Times...But yeah, once you listen to what he has to say, you will know there is some quality and solid science in there!

I hope you will enjoy the episode!

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The paper on complexity: http://koreascience.or.kr/article/JAKO201809355933912.page
The paper on the facade fire database based on the  Polish method we have  talked about: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132319307528?via%3Dihub
Wikipedia page - list of high-rise facade fires: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-rise_facade_fires

Find Imperial Hazelab at https://www.imperial.ac.uk/hazelab
Find Matt Bonner at:
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/m.bonner16
https://twitter.com/MattBonnerFire
https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewbonnerfire/

Thank you to the SFPE for recognizing me with the 2025 SFPE Fire Safety Engineering Award! Huge thanks to YOU for being a part of this, and big thanks to the OFR for supporting me over the years.

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