Biography
Elena Funk is a PhD student in the Department of Engineering, King’s College London.
Elena is undertaking a joint industrial PhD with the Danish Fire Safety and Security Technology Institute (DBI). Her research focuses on developing methodology for battery design fires.
Prior to this, she obtained her International Master of Fire Safety Engineering (IMFSE) degree from Ghent University and Lund University.
Research Interests
- Battery fire behavior
- Battery fire testing
- Battery design fires
- Fire safety engineering
- Battery aging
Thesis Title
Development of a Methodology for the Definition of Battery Fire Scenarios
Supervisor Team
First Supervisor: Dr Francesco Restuccia
Research Group
Research
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
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