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Fire Safety, Reconstruction of fire events, Human behaviour in fire
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Dr Natalia Flores Quiroz is a researcher with experience in fire safety engineering. She holds a M.Sc. in Fire Safety Engineering from Ghent University and completed her PhD at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, in the Fire Engineering Research Unit (FireSUN). Her PhD focused on Fire investigations in Informal Settlements where she reconstructed past incidents in order to understand the fire spread, the residents’ behaviour and the firefighters’ operations. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Stellenbosch University, where one of the main research areas is wildland urban interface (WUI) fires.
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PhD (Civil Engineering), Stellenbosch University, 2021 MEng (Fire Safety), Ghent University, 2018 (cum laude) BEng (Electrical Engineering), Universidad de Santiago de Chile, 2010
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Dr Natalia Flores Quiroz
Fire Safety, Reconstruction of fire events, Human behaviour in fire[if 8]
Email: Nataliaflores@sun.ac.za[/if 9]
Phone: 0609454435Short Bio
Dr Natalia Flores Quiroz is a researcher with experience in fire safety engineering. She holds a M.Sc. in Fire Safety Engineering from Ghent University and completed her PhD at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, in the Fire Engineering Research Unit (FireSUN). Her PhD focused on Fire investigations in Informal Settlements where she reconstructed past incidents in order to understand the fire spread, the residents’ behaviour and the firefighters’ operations. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Stellenbosch University, where one of the main research areas is wildland urban interface (WUI) fires.
Research Interests
PhD (Civil Engineering), Stellenbosch University, 2021 MEng (Fire Safety), Ghent University, 2018 (cum laude) BEng (Electrical Engineering), Universidad de Santiago de Chile, 2010
Selected Publications
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