Kate Thuy Nguyen Nguyen is an Associate Professor and ARC DECRA Fellow at RMIT University. She is also the leader of RMIT’s Innovative Fire & Facade Engineering Group and is presently involved in a number of projects on fire design and protection of buildings in Australia and overseas. She works in civil engineering with a focus on the fire performance of materials and composite structures. Her research interest expand to advanced manufacturing, as well as smart and sustainable construction technologies.