Meet our faculty, Dr. Mohamed Beshir
The design and construction of urban environments present significant challenges, including ensuring the safety and resilience of buildings to fire. The devastating consequences of fires in densely populated urban areas underline the need for prioritizing fire safety in urban development. Dr. Mohamed Beshir‘s research is aimed at advancing fire safety engineering to create safer and more fire-resilient built environment. Dr. Beshir is interested in supporting fire-safe and resilient built environments, reducing the environmental and economic costs of construction, and promoting fire safety engineering in everyday society.
His research applies various research tools such as computational fluid dynamics, artificial intelligence, and experimental methods to advance our knowledge in different aspects of fire science, including fire and smoke dynamics, compartment fires, fire safety resilience, and urban fire spread.
Dr. Beshir is particularly passionate about improving fire safety in low- and middle-income communities, where fire hazards are often a significant challenge. Through his research, he also seeks to contribute to improving the resilience of such communities to fires. Dr. Beshir’s interdisciplinary approach to research welcomes collaborations with researchers from different disciplines, recognizing the importance of taking a multifaceted approach to fire safety engineering.
Before joining Carleton University, Dr. Beshir worked as a fire engineer at a leading UK fire consultancy, where he worked on various projects related to residential, retail, and historical buildings. He earned his BSc from Alexandria University, Egypt and his MSc and PhD from the University of Edinburgh, where he focused on understanding compartment fire dynamics and urban fire spread in informal settlements.
Dr. Beshir’s contributions to fire safety engineering have been recognized with several awards, including the Sheldon Tieszen Award for best paper at the International Association Fire Safety Science Symposium in 2020. With his commitment to advancing fire safety engineering, Dr. Beshir is poised to make significant contributions to creating safer and more fire-resilient built environments.