Philip Thomas Medal is a prestigious award of IAFSS for the best paper presented in previous IAFSS. There is only one paper selected in every three years. IAFSS is International Association of Fire Safety Science and the International Symposium of Fire Sasfety Science. The paper awarded is titled "Introducing an Active Opening strategy to mitigate large open-plan compartment fire development", which was published on Fire Safety Journal as the official journal of IAFSS.
