Personal Chair of Fire Science Email R.Hadden@ed.ac.uk Telephone +44(0)131 6505944 Location 3.04 Alexander Graham Bell Building Engineering Discipline Civil and Environmental Engineering Research Institutes Infrastructure and Environment Research Publications Biography Rory Hadden holds a Personal Chair in Fire Science. Previously he was the Rushbrook Senior Lecturer in Fire Investigation. Prior to joining the University of Edinburgh he held positions at University of Western Ontario and Imperial College London. His research interests include pyrolysis, ignition, flammability and flame spread with application to the built and natural environments. Rory specialises in experimental work ranging from laboratory scale studies to field scale measurements of fire phenomena with novel sensing methods.