Dr Wenxuan Wu
Researcher biography
Dr Wenxuan Wu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the UQ Fire group at The University of Queensland. His current research focuses on cladding and façade fire safety, flame spread, material fire behaviour, and experimental methods for assessing fire hazards in the built environment, including battery fire safety.
Wenxuan has a strong background in timber fire safety, smouldering combustion, fire dynamics, and materials characterisation. His PhD investigated the self-sustained smouldering behaviour of preservative-treated timber, with a focus on how thermal conditions and material properties influence fire persistence and severity.
His research combines experimental fire testing, thermal analysis, gas measurement, and data analysis to better understand how construction materials ignite, burn, spread flame, and contribute to fire risk. He has experience with a wide range of fire and material testing methods, including cone calorimetry, fire propagation apparatus, thermogravimetric analysis, bomb calorimetry, FTIR, LIFT, H-TRIS, SEM-EDS, and other interdisciplinary laboratory and analytical techniques.