Bart Merci
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bart Merci | |
|---|---|
| Citizenship | Belgium |
| Alma mater | Ghent University |
| Known for | Fire and smoke dynamics; founding director of the International Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering |
| Awards | Arthur B. Guise Medal (2023); FORUM Mid-Career Researcher Award (2021); Fellow of The Combustion Institute (2019) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Fire safety science, combustion engineering |
| Institutions | Ghent 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.[1][2] He is internationally recognised for his research on fire and smoke dynamics and is the editor-in-chief of Fire Safety Journal.[3]
Merci earned an MSc in electro-mechanical engineering from Ghent University in 1997 and completed his PhD in 2000 on the modelling of turbulent non-premixed flames.[4]
Career
After completing a postdoctoral fellowship with the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), he expanded his research into fire safety and established the "Fire Safety Science and Engineering" research unit at Ghent University. Merci has held a 10% guest professorship at KU Leuven since 2015. He was Otto Monsted Guest Professor at the Technical University of Denmark in 2016 and has served as a guest professor at the University of Science and Technology of China since 2022.
Since 2015, he has been Editor-in-Chief of Fire Safety Journal and is involved in managing the International Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering (IMFSE). He has supervised over 20 completed PhD dissertations and 150 master's theses.
