Mohd Zahirasri Bin Mohd Tohir

Mohd Zahirasri is very active in the field of fire safety engineering. He is currently attached as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Universidad de Navarra, Spain. Permanently, he is employed in Universiti Putra Malaysia as a Senior Lecturer. In the field of fire safety engineering, he has published 30 research papers in fire science best journals including Fire Safety Journal, Fire Technology, Fire and Materials, and Fire Science Reviews. He also has been involved in safety engineering research which resulted in several top publications as well. He is an active member of International Association of Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) which gathers top fire scientists around the world. In terms of acquiring research grants, as a Principal Investigator/Project Leader in total, he has received around RM 2,000,000.00 from local and international grant funders up until now. As of current, he has taught fire engineering and chemical engineering courses to undergraduate and postgraduate students since 2015 as a Senior Lecturer in Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). In terms of supervision of research students, he is currently the main supervisor for 8 PhD students and 2 Masters by research students. His students are working on PV system fire safety, tropical peat soil fire dynamics, radiation heat transfer and CFD fire simulation.