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  • PhD Studentship: Physical and socio-economic drivers of changing fire dynamics in Ethiopia’s drylands and impacts on ecosystem services

    10th January, 20 / Opportunities

    Project Description Fire is a critical component of the ecology of African savannas and it is used by humans as a tool for rangeland management. Across much of northern Africa there has been a decreasing trend in burned area, but the drivers and impacts of these changes are not yet fully understood. These changing fire […]

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  • Research Assistant/Associate in Earth Systems Modelling

    2nd January, 20 / Opportunities

    Applications are invited for a Research Associate to join the  Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society, to work on Earth system modelling within the Space and Atmospheric Physics group led by Dr Apostolos Voulgarakis, at the South Kensington Campus of Imperial College London. The focus of this project is to interact with all project […]

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  • Research Associate to investigate Arctic fires in the Thermofluids Division

    2nd January, 20 / Opportunities

    Applications are invited to join the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society as a Research Associate to study experimentally smouldering Artic fire. This project, titled FireFrost, will be held within Imperial Hazelab which is the multidisciplinary research group led by Prof. Guillermo Rein based the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London. The […]

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Mission

Our mission is to lead game-changing global research for understanding, predicting and managing wildfires.

Latest News
  • 20th May, 22

    Furthering our understanding of the global patterns of burnt area, fire size and fire intensity

  • 12th April, 22

    Climate drivers of wildfire burned area across the globe

  • 8th April, 22

    Future climate change impact on wildfire danger over the Mediterranean: the case of Greece

  • 30th March, 22

    Fire in Practice – Tercia Strydom, SANParks (26 Apr)

  • 30th March, 22

    Leverhulme Wildfires- FURNACES joint research workshop (19 Apr)

  • 28th March, 22

    Declining controlled fire use undermines subsistence-oriented and smallholder livelihoods, and threatens ecosystems

  • 17th March, 22

    Decolonising Fire Science – An Introduction (5 Apr)

  • 11th March, 22

    What’s Next? Forest Fires in California’s New Climate Reality (18 Mar)

  • 11th March, 22

    High-latitude Fires, Arctic Climate, Environment, and Health Workshop (28 Mar)

  • 9th March, 22

    PhD Studentship: An analysis of the impact of climate change on traditional fire knowledge

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May 25, 2022

Well done to our ECRs who've presented research at this year's @EuroGeosciences conference in Vienna! Plus, for those attending, don't miss out on our session - "The socio-ecological dynamics of Anthropocene wildfire regimes" on Friday 27th https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU22/session/43581 #EGU22

Our Location

Imperial College London,
Department of Physics,
South Kensington,
London, SW7 2BW, UK.

Contact
wildfire@imperial.ac.uk

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