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Professor Faris Ali

Professor of Structural Engineering

Belfast School of Architecture & the Be

Jordanstown

27B02
+44 28 9036 8302 f.ali@ulster.ac.uk

Dr Karen Boyce

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Belfast School of Architecture & the Be

Jordanstown

27B07
+44 28 9536 5721 ke.boyce@ulster.ac.uk

Dr Seng-Kwan Choi

Reader

Belfast School of Architecture & the Be

Jordanstown

04B12
+44 28 9536 5203 s.choi@ulster.ac.uk

Dr Nigel McConnell

Lecturer in Human Behaviour in Fire

Belfast School of Architecture & the Be

Jordanstown

27B08
+44 28 9036 6646 nc.mcconnell@ulster.ac.uk

Professor Ali Nadjai

Professor of Fire Structural Engineering

Belfast School of Architecture & the Be

Jordanstown

27B09
+44 28 9036 8294 a.nadjai@ulster.ac.uk

Dr Jianping Zhang

Reader

Belfast School of Architecture & the Be

Jordanstown

27A10
+44 28 9036 6460 j.zhang@ulster.ac.uk

Dr Naveed Alam

Lecturer in Civil Engineering

Belfast School of Architecture & the Be

Belfast

27B16
+44 28 9536 7323 n.alam@ulster.ac.uk

Dr Svetlana Tretsiakova-Mcnally

Lecturer in the Built Environment (Chemistry)

Belfast School of Architecture & the Be

Jordanstown

27A06B
+44 28 9036 6286 s.tretsiakova-mcnally@ulster.ac.uk

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