 
          Simo Hostikka
My research field is Fire Safety Engineering. It means utilization of scientific methods for the design and assessment of buildings and other infrastructure for the fire and evacuation safety. More specifically, the methods of numerical fire simulations are in the focus.
- Thermal radiation heat transfer, see e.g.
- Solid pyrolysis modelling and flame / fire retardancy, see e.g.
- Fire-induced pressure and smoke spreading in energy efficient buildings, see e.g.
- Probabilistic fire risk analyses
- Reliability of passive fire protection systems (nuclear power plant fire safety)
In our research, we use and develop the
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                simo.hostikka@aalto.fi
              Postadress
                Rakentajanaukio 4
02150 Espoo
Finland
                              Telefonnummer
                +358504471582
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Winning poster at CAE Conference and Exhibition 2020
          
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        Department of Civil Engineering
      
              
        Jan 2020
      
      
Student prize: 2020 Harmathy award for the best student-led paper in Fire Technology -journal in 2019
      Student prize: 2020 Harmathy award for the best student-led paper in Fire Technology -journal in 2019<br/><br/>The Tibor Z. Harmathy Award is presented annually to the student author who led the best Fire Technology paper. It includes a cash prize of $1,000 from Springer.
    
    
          
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        Department of Civil Engineering
      
              
        Jan 2020
      
      
Student prize: Dean’s award for the best MSc theses in 2019 in the School of Engineering
          
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        Department of Civil Engineering
      
              
        Jan 2019
      
      
Student prize: MSc thesis award of Oskari Vilamo –fund
          
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        Department of Civil Engineering
      
              
        Jan 2019
      
      
Student prize: Best PhD thesis of International Water Mist Association
      I supervised Topi Sikanen's thesis that led him to Young Talent Award of IWMA.
    
    
          
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        Department of Civil Engineering
      
              
        Jan 2019
      
      
Student prize: Master's thesis award of Nordic Fire and Safety Days 2018
          
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        Department of Civil Engineering
      
              
        Jun 2018
      
      
Sjölin Award
      The prize is awarded by the International Forum of Fire Research Directors, for “outstanding contributions over the past number of years to the FDS Development Team and the resulting impact of the team’s work on the advancement of fire engineering around the world”. Received with Kevin McGrattan, Howard Baum, Glenn Forney, Randall McDermott, Ronald Rehm, Jason Floyd, Timo Korhonen and William Mell. doi:10.1016/j.firesaf.2012.12.002
    
    
          
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        Department of Civil Engineering
      
              
        Jan 2012
      
      
Philip Thomas Medal of Excellence
       Philip Thomas Medal of Excellence for the best paper at the eighth symposium of International Association of Fire Safety Science, 2005. Received with Timo Korhonen and Olavi Keski-Rahkonen.
    
    
          
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        Department of Civil Engineering
      
              
        Jan 2008
      
      
Interflam trophy
      Received togetherwith Kevin McGrattan, Jason Floyd and Glenn Forney, for a key contribution to fire science.
    
    
          
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        Department of Civil Engineering
      
              
        Jan 2007
      
      
The best paper 2009 in Rakenteiden mekaniikka (Journal of Structural Mechanics)
      The best paper 2009 in Rakenteiden mekaniikka (Journal of Structural
Mechanics) for the article “Experimental and numerical studies on projectile
impact” by A. Saarenheimo, M. Tuomala, K. Calonius, I. Hakola, S.
Hostikka and A. Silde
    
    
          
        Award or honor granted for a specific work
      
              
        Department of Civil Engineering
      
              
        Jan 2010
      
      
Forskningsgrupp
- Performance in Building Design and Construction, Professor
Publikationer
            
        Simo Hostikka, Antti Linna
      
              
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        Fire Safety Journal
      
      
            
        Christian Riitamaa, Frank Markert, Luisa Giuliani, Simo Hostikka
      
              
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        International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
      
      
            
        Iiro Vanne, Simo Hostikka, Pentti Kujala, Osiris A. Valdez Banda
      
              
        2025
      
                  
        Safety Science
      
      
            
        Guoxiang Zhao, Johan Anderson, Anders Dragsted, Simo Hostikka, Karlis Livkiss
      
              
        2025
      
                  
        Fire and Materials
      
      
            
        Tito Adibaskoro, Stéphane Bordas, Wojciech T. Sołowski, Simo Hostikka
      
              
        2024
      
                  
        Engineering Fracture Mechanics
      
      
            
        Farid Alinejad, Hadi Bordbar, Simo Hostikka
      
              
        2024
      
                  
        ASME Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer
      
      
            
        Farid Alinejad, Hadi Bordbar, Simo Hostikka
      
              
        2024
      
                  
        Fire Safety Journal
      
      
            
        Morteza Gholami Haghighi Fard, Simo Hostikka
      
              
        2024
      
                  
        Fire Safety Journal
      
      
            
        Simo Hostikka
      
              
        2024
      
              
        Fire Retardancy of Polymeric Materials 
      
          
            
        Simo Hostikka, Emmanuelle Castagnoli, Raimo Mikkola, Heidi Salonen, Tarique Jhatial, Rauli Törrö, Rahul Kallada Janardhan, Marjaleena Aatamila, Juha Laitinen, Marko Hassinen, Pekka Toivanen, Kalle Kiviranta, Laura Kuurne, Tarja Ojala, Jukka Lepistö
      
              
        2024
      
              
 
           
           
           
           
           
          