“There is no doubt that the Lessells Travel Scholarship constitutes enormous support for my career and I will continue to reap the benefits from it in the years to come.”

Simon Santamaria is a PhD student in Fire Safety Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. Simon’s research focuses on solid fuels and he was awarded a JM Lessells Travel Scholarship to travel to the Combustion and Fire Processes Laboratories, University of California, Berkeley to carry out a three-months project titled “Improving ignition criteria: analysis of surface heat losses under complex ignition scenarios”.
