World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!

D-Index & Metrics

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

D-Index
59
Citations
11416
World Ranking
742
National Ranking
42

Overview

Guillermo Rein is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom and specializes in fields related to engineering and environmental science. Their research output includes extensive work addressing fire dynamics, ecosystem effects, safety measures, and advanced battery technologies.

The scientist's main fields of study are:

  • Engineering
  • Environmental Science

Subfields of study associated with their work include:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Ecology

Rein's primary research topics encompass:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Fire dynamics and safety research
  • Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
  • Advanced Battery Technologies Research
  • Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
  • Combustion and Detonation Processes
  • Advancements in Battery Materials

Some recent notable papers produced by their collaborators and related authors include:

  • "Review-Meta-Review of Fire Safety of Lithium-Ion Batteries: Industry Challenges and Research Contributions" (2020), Journal of The Electrochemical Society
  • "Smouldering wildfires in peatlands, forests and the arctic: Challenges and perspectives" (2021), Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health
  • "A multiscale model of wood pyrolysis in fire to study the roles of chemistry and heat transfer at the mesoscale" (2020), Combustion and Flame
  • "The simulation of wildland-urban interface fire evacuation: The WUI-NITY platform" (2021), Safety Science
  • "Heat transfer effects on accelerating rate calorimetry of the thermal runaway of Lithium-ion batteries" (2022), Process Safety and Environmental Protection

The frequent co-authors with whom Guillermo Rein has collaborated include:

  • Franz Richter
  • Eirik G. Christensen
  • Francesco Restuccia
  • Harry Mitchell
  • Panagiotis Kotsovinos

Regarding venues for publication, their work appears frequently in:

  • Fire Technology
  • International Journal of Wildland Fire
  • Fire Safety Journal
  • Fire and Materials
  • Combustion and Flame

Best Publications

  • Global vulnerability of peatlands to fire and carbon loss

    Merritt R. Turetsky;Brian Benscoter;Susan Page;Guillermo Rein

  • Application of genetic algorithms and thermogravimetry to determine the kinetics of polyurethane foam in smoldering combustion

    Guillermo Rein;Chris Lautenberger;A. Carlos Fernandez-Pello;Jose L. Torero

  • Smouldering Combustion Phenomena in Science and Technology

    Guillermo Rein

  • The application of a genetic algorithm to estimate material properties for fire modeling from bench-scale fire test data

    Chris Lautenberger;Guillermo Rein;Carlos Fernandez-Pello

  • Pyrolysis of Medium-Density Fiberboard: Optimized Search for Kinetics Scheme and Parameters via a Genetic Algorithm Driven by Kissinger’s Method

    Kai Yuan Li;Xinyan Huang;Charles Fleischmann;Guillermo Rein

  • Travelling fires for structural design-Part I: Literature review

    Jamie Stern-Gottfried;Jamie Stern-Gottfried;Guillermo Rein

  • Smouldering Fires and Natural Fuels

    Guillermo Rein

  • Review of emissions from smouldering peat fires and their contribution to regional haze episodes

    Yuqi Hu;Nieves Fernandez-Anez;Nieves Fernandez-Anez;Thomas E. L. Smith;Thomas E. L. Smith;Guillermo Rein

  • Smouldering combustion of peat in wildfires: Inverse modelling of the drying and the thermal and oxidative decomposition kinetics

    Xinyan Huang;Guillermo Rein

  • Review—Meta-Review of Fire Safety of Lithium-Ion Batteries: Industry Challenges and Research Contributions

    Laura Bravo Diaz;Xuanze He;Zhenwen Hu;Francesco Restuccia

  • Travelling fires for structural design-Part II: Design methodology

    Jamie Stern-Gottfried;Jamie Stern-Gottfried;Guillermo Rein

  • 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit

    O. Putzeys;Guillermo Rein;A. C. Fernandez-Pello;D. L. Urban

  • Carbon emissions from smouldering peat in shallow and strong fronts

    Guillermo Rein;Simon Cohen;Albert Simeoni

  • Round-robin study of a priori modelling predictions of the Dalmarnock Fire Test One

    Guillermo Rein;Jose L. Torero;Wolfram Jahn;Jamie Stern-Gottfried;Jamie Stern-Gottfried

  • Kinetic and Fuel Property Effects on Forward Smoldering Combustion

    S. V. Leach;G. Rein;Janet L Ellzey;Ofodike A Ezekoye

  • Self-Sustaining Smoldering Combustion: A Novel Remediation Process for Non-Aqueous-Phase Liquids in Porous Media

    C. Switzer;P. Pironi;J.I. Gerhard;G. Rein

  • Downward spread of smouldering peat fire: the role of moisture, density and oxygen supply

    Xinyan Huang;Xinyan Huang;Guillermo Rein

  • Small-scale forward smouldering experiments for remediation of coal tar in inert media

    Paolo Pironi;Christine Switzer;Guillermo Rein;Andres Fuentes

  • Upward-and-downward spread of smoldering peat fire

    Xinyan Huang;Xinyan Huang;Guillermo Rein

  • Computational smoldering combustion: Predicting the roles of moisture and inert contents in peat wildfires

    Xinyan Huang;Guillermo Rein;Haixiang Chen

  • Study of the competing chemical reactions in the initiation and spread of smouldering combustion in peat

    Rory M. Hadden;Guillermo Rein;Claire M. Belcher

  • Experimental data and numerical modelling of 1.3 and 2.3 MW fires in a 20 m cubic atrium

    Cándido Gutiérrez-Montes;Enrique Sanmiguel-Rojas;Antonio Viedma;Guillermo Rein

  • Smoldering Combustion

    Unknown

Frequent Co-Authors

Jose L. Torero
Jose L. Torero University College London
Jason I. Gerhard
Jason I. Gerhard University of Western Ontario
Artemi Cerdà
Artemi Cerdà University of Valencia
Vittorio Verda
Vittorio Verda Polytechnic University of Turin
A. C. Fernandez-Pello
A. C. Fernandez-Pello University of California, Berkeley
Merritt R. Turetsky
Merritt R. Turetsky University of Colorado Boulder
Jennifer C. McElwain
Jennifer C. McElwain Trinity College Dublin
Jorge Mataix-Solera
Jorge Mataix-Solera Miguel Hernandez University
Luke Bisby
Luke Bisby University of Edinburgh
David Paré
David Paré Natural Resources Canada

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Related Online Degrees & Career Pathways

Pursuing a degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering opens diverse career pathways, but many students also explore complementary fields. For those interested in behavioral science, programs like the accelerated bcba program online offer specialized training that can be completed quickly and remotely, providing opportunities in behavior analysis and therapy.

Alternatively, students might consider mental health professions. Exploring the easiest degree in counseling can be an accessible entry point for those aiming to become licensed counselors or therapists with flexible online options.

For those curious about specialized roles in criminal justice, becoming an FBI profiler involves unique educational requirements and skills. Detailed insights on this career path can be found in guides on how to become a profiler, helping students align their academic focus with law enforcement needs.

Additionally, understanding the different types of therapist degrees supports informed decisions about career transitions or dual qualifications, especially for engineers interested in client-focused roles that blend technical and counseling skills.

Best Scientists Citing Guillermo Rein

Trending Scientists

Recently Published Articles