Industry Lead Researcher

Professor Steve Gwynne

Movement Strategies (GHD)

Professor Steve Gwynne is Research Lead at Movement Strategies (a GHD company) and Industrial Professor of Evacuation and Pedestrian Dynamics at Lund University, Sweden. Steve has nearly 25 years of experience in pedestrian dynamics, human behaviour in fire and evacuation modelling. Steve has worked for the Canadian /US governments, academic institutes (e.g. Univ. Maryland, Univ. Waterloo and Univ. Greenwich) and in consultancy (e.g. Hughes Associates, US). Steve has been involved in data collection, model development/application, procedural design, and regulatory development. Steve has worked in the aviation, maritime, rail and built environments, and has also worked in large-scale disasters (e.g. wildfire incidents).