Serge Bourbigot
Full professor.
Centrale Lille Institut
membre IUF
Membre AFNOR/P92 Comportement au feu (réaction - résistance)
Responsable du groupe Réaction et Résistance au feu (R2Fire)
ERC AdG ‘FireBar-Concept’ : firebarconcept.univ-lille.fr
Unité des Matériaux et Transformation (UMET) – CNRS UMR 8207
Equipe Ingénierie des Systèmes Polymères (ISP)
Groupe Réaction et Résistance au feu (R2Fire)
Office : +33 (0)3 74 95 13 21
E-mail: serge.bourbigot@centralelille.fr
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1536-2015
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille (ENSCL) Cité scientifique Bâtiment C7, Bureau 12 Avenue Dimitri Mendeleiev 59652 Villeneuve d’Ascq – France
After completing his PhD in 1993, he was appointed Lecturer same year, then became Associate Professor in 1999, before being appointed Full Professor at Centrale Lille Institut in 2003.
In 2015, he was awarded the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant for his FireBar-Concept project (with a €2.5 million budget). In 2026, he received the prestigious ERC Synergy Grant for the FireSpace project, in collaboration with Ghent University, the University of Bremen, and Sorbonne University (with a €14 million budget).
He became a member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) in 2020, with a renewal in 2025.
His research focuses on the reaction and fire resistance of polymer materials. It includes material processing as well as the assessment of fire behaviour under complex and extreme conditions (battery fires, hydrogen-related fires, and microgravity environments), while also developing characterization methods and novel measurement approaches.
His work is structured around two main axes:
- Processing of filled materials and coatings (synergy and formulation, reactive extrusion, nanocomposites, spectrochemistry);
- Similarity and modelling (scale reduction and dimensional analysis, kinetic analysis, pyrolysis modelling).
