The Sjölin Award recognizes an outstanding contribution to the science of fire safety or an advance in the state of the art in fire safety engineering practice of extraordinary significance. It is presented to the individual or group whose efforts are primarily responsible for or traceable to the specified advance. The Prize consists of a plaque and an honorarium. Recipients of the FORUM Prize are selected and announced annually and the awards are delivered at the tri-annual symposia of the International Association for Fire Safety Science.
Past recipients of this award include the following individuals/organizations:
2022 -- Awarded to the FAA Team: Dr. Richard E. Lyon, Dr. Richard N. Walters, Dr. Stanislav I. Stoliarov, Dr. Haiqing Guo, Dr. James G. Quintiere, Ms. Natallia Safronava, Ms. Louise Speitel, and Mr. Sean Crowley as the FAA Team, Federal Aviation Administration, Presented at the 14th IAFSS, Tsukuba, Japan (2023)
2021 -- Awarded to Dr. Noureddine Bénichou, National Research Council Canada, Presented at the 14th IAFSS, Tsukuba, Japan (2023)
2020 -- Awarded to Haukur Ingason, Presented at the 13th IAFSS, virtual, Waterloo, Canada (2021)
2019 -- Awarded to Brian Lattimer, Presented at the 13th IAFSS, virtual, Waterloo, Canada (2021)
2018 -- Awarded to Weicheng Fan, Presented at the 13th IAFSS, virtual, Waterloo, Canada (2021)
2017 -- Awarded to Arnaud Trouvé, Presented at the 12th IAFSS in Lund, Sweden (2017)
2016 -- Awarded to Esko Mikkola, Presented at the 12th IAFSS in Lund, Sweden (2017)
2015 -- Awarded to William Parker, Presented at the 12th IAFSS in Lund, Sweden (2017)
2014 -- Awarded to John Hall, Presented at the 11th IAFSS in Christchurch, New Zealand (2014)
2013 -- Awarded to John deRis, Presented at the 11th IAFSS in Christchurch, New Zealand (2014)
2012 -- Awarded to the FDS Development Team: Kevin McGrattan (NIST), Howard Baum (NIST), Glenn Forney (NIST), Randall McDermott (NIST), Ronald Rehm (NIST), Jason Floyd (Hughes Associates Inc.), Simo Hostikka (VTT), Timo Korhonen (VTT), and William Mell (U.S. Forest Service), Presented at the 11th IAFSS in Christchurch, New Zealand (2014)
2011 -- Awarded to Takeyoshi Tanaka, Presented at the 10th IAFSS in Washington DC, USA (2011)
2010 -- Awarded to Yuji Hasemi, Presented at the 10th IAFSS in Washington DC, USA (2011)
2009 -- Awarded to Gunnar Heskestad, Presented at the 10th IAFSS in Washington DC, USA (2011)
2008 -- Awarded to Andrew Buchanan, Presented at the 9th IAFSS in Karlsruhe, Germany (2008)
2007 – Awarded to Richard Gann, Presented at the 9th IAFSS in Karlsruhe, Germany (2008)
2006–- Awarded to Geoff Cox, Presented at the 9th IAFSS in Karlsruhe, Germany (2008)
2005 -- Awarded to Dougal Drysdale. Presented at the 8th IAFSS in Beijing, PRC (2005)
2002 -- Awarded to Vyto Babrauskas, Paula Beever, and Jim Quintiere. Presented at the 7th IAFSS in Worcester, USA (2002)
1999 -- Awarded to (the heirs of) Philip Thomas, Kunio Kawagoe, Howard Emmons, and David Rasbash and to the eight organizations to which they were connected: Harvard University, the Fire Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Factory Mutual Research Corporation, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) of the USA; the Building Research Institute and the Science University of Tokyo in Japan; and the Fire Research Station (FRS) and the University of Edinburgh in the UK. Presented at the 6th IAFSS in Poitiers, France (1999)
1994 -- Awarded jointly to Lund University, Science University of Tokyo, University of Edinburgh, University of Maryland, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Presented at the 4th IAFSS in Ottawa, Canada (1994)