Awards
2025 - Top 2% world's ranking of scientists in 2024 (link)
2025 - Shorlisted for the Prime Minister's MacDiarmid Emerging Scientist Prize
2024 - IESANZ - The Lighting Society -  360 experiences to teach Lighting Design (link)
2024 - ResearchGate Top read author in New Zealand (link)
2023 - Best student paper at EPPM conference (my PhD student: Armin Baghaei)
2023 - Best student paper at IAFSS conference (my PhD student: Luke de Schot)
2023 - Top 2% world's ranking of scientists in 2023 (link)
2022 - 5 under 35 SFPE Award (link)
2022 - Top 2% world's ranking of scientists in 2022 (link)
2021- Best Paper 2021 - Editor's Choice collection - Fire Technology - Springer (Paper)
2020 - Massey Research Medal - Early Career (Massey University) (link)
2020 - College of Science Research Award - Early Career (Massey University)
2021 - Editor in Chief’s Featured Article - Fire Safety Journal - Elsevier (Paper)
2019 - Editor in Chief’s Featured Article - Fire Safety Journal - Elsevier (Paper)
2018 - Jack Watts Award (Fire Technology - Springer) - Outstanding Reviewer

Research Impact

• My research has been cited in many Governmental, Policy, Standard and Guideline documents:
• Society of Fire Protection Engineers - WUI Working Group Initiative (link)
• International Organization for Standardization - ISO 20414:2020, Fire safety engineering — Verification and validation protocol for building fire evacuation models (link)
• World Health Organization - Urban planning, design and management approaches to building resilience – an evidence review (link)
• Science Advice for Policy by European Academies - Strategic crisis management in the EU (link)
• ​International Code Council and Society of Fire Protection Engineers - Fire Safety for Very Tall Buildings - Engineering Guide (link)
• UK Government - Strategies for evacuation of occupants from high-rise residential buildings involved in fire (link)
• UK Government - Means of escape in residential buildings research (link)
• Society of Fire Protection Engineers - Guide to Human Behavior in Fire (link)
• Society of Fire Protection Engineers - Residential Fire Safety, An Interdisciplinary Approach (link)
• Society of Fire Protection Engineers - Handbook of Fire and the Environment, Impacts and Mitigation (link)
• Government of Czech Republic - Metodika vyuzití detekce pesích pro mestské plánování a analýzu rizik (link)​
• Fire Code Solutions Canada - Exit Lighting and Exit Sign (link)
• IAFSS Intro Lecture - Fire Fundamentals - The Evacuation Equation with David Purser (link)
• California Dept. of Transportation - Traffic Modeling of Potential Emergency Wildfire Evacuation: Preliminary Investigation (link)
• Country Fire Authority (Victoria, Australia) - Safer Together Research: The Application of Self-Evacuation Archetypes 
• European Commission – Joint Research Centre (JRC) - Fire-Safety Engineering Technical Note (Feb 2025)
• ​European Commission – Joint Research Centre (JRC) -Guidelines for Good Practices for Human Protection (Nov 2024) 
• NIST (U.S.) - Large Outdoor Fires and the Built Environment (LOF&BE): Summary of Virtual Workshop
• USDA Forest Service - Large wildfire driven increases in nighttime fire activity observed across
  CONUS from 2003–2020
• United Nations - Emerging science, frontiertechnologies, and the SDGsPerspectives from the UN system andscience and technology communities
• Country Fire Authority (Victoria, Australia) - The Application of SelfEvacuation Archetypes
• Society of Fire Protection Engineers -  Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fire Engineering Library of Research and Resources