2025 PEER Annual Meeting Speaker Bio: Michael Gollner is an Associate Professor and Deb Faculty Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley where he leads the Berkeley Fire Research Lab. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California, San Diego and was an Associate Professor of Fire Protection Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD from 2012-2019. Dr. Gollner studies how fires ignite and spread within the wildland-urban interface (WUI), the physics and dynamics of wildland fire spread, the processes by which structures ignite from embers, and emissions and associated health effects from wildfire smoke. He is the recipient of numerous awards from the NSF, IAFSS, IAWF, NFPA and Combustion Institute and has sat on boards and committees for many of the same organizations. Updated February 2025.
