Location (during time of takeover)
School/Institution
| Undergrad | University of the Philippines Diliman Materials Engineering |
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| Masters | University of Edinburgh Lund University Ghent University Fire Safety Engineering |
Featured on June 22, 2025
This week, Pinoy Scientist Gizelle Danine Jamero is sharing the flames of her passion. She is a Fire Safety Engineer with 10 years of experience in the field currently working for Arup in Dublin, Ireland as a Project Fire Engineer.
Gizelle completed her Bachelor of Science in Materials Engineering at the University of the Philippines Diliman in 2013. For six years she was a Lead Material Engineer at Fluor Daniel, Inc., dealing with quality assurance activities as well as the material and technical requirements of piping systems. She briefly moved to Wood PLC as a Material Engineer, after which she became an Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Degree Scholarship awardee for the International Master of Science in Fire Safety Engineering program. After studying across a consortium of universities – Ghent University in Belgium, Lund University in Sweden, and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland – she graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2023. Her thesis was performed with Kingspan and dealt with the permanent fire load of the building envelope. During her Master’s degree, she interned with Fire-safe Sustainable Built Environment (FRISSBE) and the Society of Fire Protection Engineers.
Gizelle is now working with Arup in Dublin, Ireland as a Project Fire Engineer. She evaluates buildings and architectural plans for compliance with regulations and guidelines, conducts risk assessments, and develops fire safety strategies accordingly.
Some fun facts about Gizelle:
- She’s a travel junkie! To date, she’s visited over 31 countries and 65 of the 82 provinces in the Philippines.
- As a proud Ilongga, she loves to cook and eat. Pancit molo is one of the dishes she can cook blindfolded. She’ll eat any food imaginable (even Surströmming of Sweden!), but she’ll never drink powdered milk.
- She likes to commemorate life milestones with small tattoos (9 to date – sorry, Nanay). Notable ones: a flame tattoo when she finished her Master’s, Apo Whang-Od’s signature, and a wave tattoo to commemorate her first self-paid out-of-the-country trip.
