Thomas Gernay is an Assistant Professor in Civil and Systems Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. He has more than 10 years of experience of research and teaching of fire behavior of structures. He obtained his PhD from University of Liege in 2012, with a thesis on the modeling of concrete structures in fire. Before joining JHU, he worked as a Fulbright Scholar at Princeton University. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers Structural Engineering Institute (ASCE/SEI) Technical Committee on Fire Protection, the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) Subcommittee on Research, and the American Concrete Institute (ACI) Fire Resistance and Fire Protection Committee. He is also active within the International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib), where he leads the Task Group on Performance-Based Fire Design. He has worked extensively on the numerical modeling of structures in fire and co-develops the software SAFIR® which is used by numerous researchers and engineers worldwide. His research has been recognized by several awards including from the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS), and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). He is an associate editor of Springer journal Fire Technology. He is the lead author of the chapters on “Concrete Structures” and on “Advanced Analysis” in the Springer publication “International Handbook of Structural Fire Engineering”, and he has published more than 130 research papers and conference articles on the subject.