Post Doctoral Fellow (WUI Fire Emissions, Experiments, and Multiscale Modeling)

• Contribute to the planning, execution, and analysis of medium- and large-scale WUI fire experiments at WPI using building materials and scaled residential building models.

• Analyze integrated fire-behavior and emission datasets, including temperature, heat flux, flow/velocity, combustion indicators, and aerosol/gas measurements collected with project collaborators.

• Evaluate fire behavior-emission relationships, emission additivity, and scale dependence across bench-, medium-, and large-scale experiments, with attention to uncertainty and reproducibility.

• Develop or apply computational models that help interpret the experiments and investigate transfer of information across scales. Depending on expertise, this may involve fire/smoke CFD, reduced-order or physics informed models, urban dispersion tools, or multiscale model coupling.

• Prepare peer-reviewed manuscripts and conference presentations, collaborate with graduate students and project partners, and contribute to proposal development and preliminary studies related to future wildfire smoke research.

Applicants should hold a PhD in mechanical engineering, architectural/building engineering, fire protection engineering, civil/environmental engineering, chemical engineering, atmospheric science, or a closely related field.

Strong candidates will demonstrate:

• Research experience in fire, smoke, thermal-fluid sciences, pollutant transport, or a closely related area.

• A strong foundation in heat and mass transfer, fluid mechanics, combustion, or environmental transport, together with scientific programming and quantitative data-analysis skills.

• Experience with experimental research or experimental datasets; candidates who combine computational modeling with hands-on experimental experience are especially encouraged.

• A peer-reviewed publication record and the ability to carry research from analysis and interpretation through manuscript preparation.

Experience with medium- or large-scale fire experiments, aerosol/gas measurements, building-material combustion, model validation, uncertainty quantification, high-performance computing, or tools such as FDS/WFDS, QUIC-Fire/QUIC-SMOKE, FIRETEC, or related fire/dispersion models is desirable but not required.

To apply, please include

- A current Curriculum Vitae (CV)

- One representative peer-reviewed publication that best reflects the candidate’s research experience and is closely aligned with the research direction of this position

Inquires should be sent to Dr. Shichao Liu at sliu8@wpi.edu: Please use the subject line “Postdoctoral Applicant – WUI Fire Smoke”.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.