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Abdullah Rehman

Abdullah Rehman

PhD Student

Research interests

  • Engineering

Biography

Abdullah Rehman is currently a PhD student in the Heat and Fire Lab in the Department of Engineering at King’s College London. He is also a member of the Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment, and Society.

Prior to his PhD, Abdullah worked as a software engineer developing surgical simulations and completed his master’s degree at Imperial College London in 2022. 

Research Interests

Abdullah’s research focuses on fire spread and risk prediction models in the Wildland Urban Interface, with the aim to improve our understanding of how wildfires behave and what can be done to mitigate the risk they pose.

  • Wildfire Modelling
  • Climate Change
  • Risk Modelling
  • Remote Sensing
  • Scientific Computing

Supervisor Team

First Supervisor: Dr. Francesco Restuccia

Research Centres/Groups

 

Research

fire
Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society

Transforming the scientific and practical understanding of wildfire through interdisciplinary research

Wildfire. Wildfire in British Columbia. Canada, Fernando Astasio Avila on Shutterstock
Wildfires and Climate Change: Physics-Based Modelling of Fire Spread in a Changing World

To understand and predict the occurrence of uncontrolled fires and produce a fundamental physical model to understand the process of fire spread.

Project status: Ongoing

Research

fire
Leverhulme Centre for Wildfires, Environment and Society

Transforming the scientific and practical understanding of wildfire through interdisciplinary research

Wildfire. Wildfire in British Columbia. Canada, Fernando Astasio Avila on Shutterstock
Wildfires and Climate Change: Physics-Based Modelling of Fire Spread in a Changing World

To understand and predict the occurrence of uncontrolled fires and produce a fundamental physical model to understand the process of fire spread.

Project status: Ongoing