Education

• PhD Mechanical Engineering at University of California at Berkeley, 2005
• MSc Mechanical Engineering at University of California at Berkeley,2003
• MEng Ingeniero Industrial at ICAI Universidad Pontificia de Comillas,1999 and University of Texas at Austin (exchange, 1999).

Research interests

Professor of Fire Science at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Imperial College London. Editor-in-Chief of the journal Fire Technology. Fellow of the Combustion Institute. Creator and Leader of “Imperial HazeLab” research group. Heat transfer, combustion and fire, combination of lab experiments and computer models, how synthetic polymers and wood ignite so we can prevent fires from starting, how modern materials respond to fire so engineers can design better structures, how wildfires spread so rural communities can be protected.

The Adjunction of Guillermo Rein has been made possible as per the SEMEDFIRE (https://semedfire.eu/) Twinning project, which has received funding by the European Union’s HORIZON-WIDERA-2021-ACCESS-03 Grant Agreement no. 101079337.