
Gollner, Michael J.
Associate Professor
FPE Laboratory Safety Officer
FPE Laboratory Safety Officer
Fire Protection Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Aerospace Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
3104A J.M. Patterson Building, College Park, MD 20742
EDUCATION
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2010 – 2012 Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego
Thesis: Studies on Upward Flame Spread
Advisor: Prof. Forman A. Williams
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2010 M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego
Thesis: A Fundamental Approach towards Storage Commodity Classification
Advisor: Prof. Forman A. Williams
- 2008 B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego
BACKGROUND
- Assistant Professor (2012-2017), University of Maryland, College Park
- Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant (2008-2012), University of California, San Diego
Professional Leadership
- 2016 – 2018 Board of Directors International Association of Wildland Fire
- 2015 – 2018 Research Advisory Board NFPA Fire Protection Research Foundation
- 2014 – present Principal Member NFPA Technical Committee on Wildland and Rural Fire Protection
- 2014 – 2017 Management Committee International Association of Fire Safety Science (IAFSS)
- 2012 – present Chair IAFSS Communications Subcommittee
Editorial Positions
- 2017 – present Editorial Advisory Committee, International Journal of Wildland Fire
- 2014 – present Associate Editor Fire Technology
- 2014 – present Guest Editor Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering, Special Issue on Wildland Fires
- 2014 – present Guest Editor Fire Technology Special Issue on Detection and Suppression
- 2014 – present Editorial Board Member Fire Safety Journal
- 2014 – present Editorial Board Member Technology
- 2016 – present Editorial Board Member Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering
HONORS AND AWARDS
- 2018 Fire Protection Research Foundation Medal (e-Sanctuary advisory committee), National Fire Protection Association
- 2017 Proulx Early Career Award International Association of Fire Safety Science
- 2016 Fire Protection Research Foundation Medal (Pathways to Fire Spread in the WUI Review), National Fire Protection Association
- 2016 CAREER Award National Science Foundation
- 2013 Jack Watts Award Outstanding Reviewer for Fire Technology
- 2010 Chancellor’s Award for Sustainability University of California, San Diego
- 2010 Recipient, Student Research Grant SFPE Educational and Scientific Foundation
- 2010 Honorable Mention NSF Graduate Student Researcher Program
- 2010 Rae K. Hepps Graduate Fellowship University of California, San Diego
- 2010 Gordon Scholar Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego
BEST POSTERS AND PAPERS
- 2017 Delegates Choice Outstanding Image 12th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science
- 2017 Judge’s Choice Outstanding Student Poster, 12th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science
- 2017 1st Prize for Artistic Merit - Photo 10th US National Combustion Meeting
- 2015 Distinguished Paper, Fire Colloquium 35th International Symposium on Combustion
- 2015 Best Workshop Paper International Conference on Computational Science
- 2014 3 Readers and Editors Choice Awards HPCwire Magazine
- 2012 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship MAE Department, UC San Diego
- 2011 Best Poster Award 10th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science
- 2011 Best Fire Science Image Award 10th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science
- 2011 3rd Place, Science Art Competition US National Combustion Meeting, Atlanta, GA
- Wildland and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
- Fires Buoyancy-Driven Fluid Dynamics
- Environmental sustainability
- Fire Dynamics
- Combustion
- Material Flammability
Clark School researchers describe a previously unobserved flame phenomenon in a new peer-reviewed paper.
- ENFP 611, Fire Induced Flows
- ENFP 489/629, Special Topics
Recent Publications and Preprints are available here