Sereen Khalil (Assoc)

Sereen Khalil is an alumni of the George Washington University, earning BS and MS degrees in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, with a concentration in materials science. Her research focused on fluid mechanics, with her master’s thesis exploring the behavior of passive scalars in turbulent boundary layers.

Currently, Sereen works with Dr. Isaac Leventon as a member of the Flammability Reduction Group in the NIST Fire Research Division (FRD). Her main research focus is aimed at developing the NIST Cone Calorimeter Database: a publicly accessible, version controlled, and continually growing digital repository of cone calorimeter data. In this database, experimental measurements and derived properties (e.g., heat of combustion and ignition and fire growth parameters) from experiments conducted from 1983 to the present will be made available from thousands of experiments conducted on a wide range of materials including commodity plastics, woods, cables, vegetative fuels, and flooring and other building materials.

In addition to her work developing the Cone Calorimeter Database, Sereen also supports testing in the intermediate-scale flame spread (ISFS) apparatus, with a focus on developing advanced diagnostics and datasets for fire model validation.