Principal Investigator

Thomas Gernay is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr Gernay holds a Master degree in Civil Engineering (2009) and a PhD in Structural Engineering (2012) from University of Liege in Belgium. He was a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University (2014-2015). He joined JHU in 2018.
He is the recipient of several professional awards including the 2023 AISC Terry Peshia Early Career Faculty Award, the NFPA Foundation Medal, and both the Magnusson Early Career Award and the Best Thesis Award from the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS). His research has been funded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the American Concrete Institute (ACI), the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), the Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF), and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), among others.
Dr Gernay is an Associate Editor for Fire Technology, the Springer journal published in conjunction with the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE). He is an Editorial Board member of Fire Safety Journal, Elsevier.
Contact: tgernay@jhu.edu Google scholar – LinkedIn – Twitter

Group members

PhD Student (co-advised)

Visiting PhD Student
Former group members
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Postdoc (now Assistant Prof at UMD)

PhD Student (now Project Consultant at SGH)

Visiting PhD Student

MSE Student

MSE Student

MSE Student

MSE Student

Undergrad

MICA Intern