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Anthony Hamins is the Chief of the Fire Research Division. The Division develops, verifies, and utilizes measurements and models to quantify the behavior of fire and develop the means to reduce the impact of fire on people, property, and the environment. Prior to joining NIST in 1989, Hamins was a Postdoctoral Research Engineer at the University of California at San Diego and a Research Scientist at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He was a Project Leader in the Fire Research Division for nine years (1989 – 1997) and then served as Group Leader for nine years, most recently for the Fire Analysis and Prediction Group (2001-2007) and before that with the Fire Dynamics Group (1998-2000). His research interests include measurement science applied to heat and mass transfer processes involving fires at multiple scales, fire investigation, the structure and extinction of non-premixed flames, micro-gravity combustion, the kinetics of flame inhibition, validation of fire models, and structural fire resistance. While at NIST, Hamins has led complex interdisciplinary research on advanced fire measurements and predictive methods, including two large-scale fire experiments to provide data for validation of models that were used to investigate the fires and collapse of the World Trade Center towers and another large-scale experiment that was conducted for fire model validation in partnership with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He has led fundamental and applied studies on fire suppression for a broad range of engineering applications including automobiles, aircraft, space platforms, and residences. Hamins is the Technical Program Chair of the 9th Meeting of the International Association of Fire Safety Science, taking place in Germany in September 2008. He received the Department of Commerce Gold Medal in 2005 for his contributions to the World Trade Center investigation. He has been involved in education, serving as an Advisor for several Post-Doctoral Research Associates, serving on various thesis and dissertation committees, and advising many guest scientists at NIST. He has published over one-hundred journal articles and reports and is a member of the Combustion Institute and the Committee of the International Association for Fire Safety Science. |
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Anthony HaminsEducationUniversity of California at Berkeley, B.S., PhysicsUniversity of California at San Diego, Ph.D.,Engineering Physics PositionDivision ChiefFire Research Division Building and Fire Research Laboratory |
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