Rate My Professor Ed Galea

Galea’s research specializations encompass fire safety engineering, with key interests in evacuation modelling, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and fire field modelling, human behaviour in fire, agent-based modelling, and crowd dynamics. He has led the development of influential software tools such as SMARTFIRE for CFD fire modelling and the EXODUS family of evacuation models (including buildingEXODUS, airEXODUS, and maritimeEXODUS), which are distributed worldwide and utilized by major organizations including Airbus, Boeing, and the European Space Agency. His scholarly impact is evidenced by over 350 peer-reviewed publications and more than 10,000 citations on Google Scholar. Notable works include “Perceptions of autonomous vehicles: Relationships with road users, risk, gender and age” (Safety Science, 2018) and “A review of the methodologies used in the computer simulation of evacuation from the built environment” (Building and Environment, 1999). Galea has received prestigious awards such as the 2002 Queen’s Anniversary Prize for the university’s life-saving fire research, the 2001 British Computer Society Gold Medal for the EXODUS model, Gold Awards from the Royal Aeronautical Society in 2006 and 2017, and the 2013 Medal of Distinction from the Royal Institution of Naval Architects for ship evacuation research. He has also delivered public lectures, including the University of Greenwich Annual Lecture in 2007 titled “Burning Questions, Model Answers - The Simulation of Fire and Human Behaviour.”