Donghyun Kim
Research Scholar
Agriculture, Forestry, and Ecosystem Services Research Group
Biodiversity and Natural Resources Program
Biography
Donghyun Kim joined IIASA’s Ecosystems Services and Management (ESM) Program in October 2012, as a research scholar financed by the Korean Forest Research Institute (KFRI) in cooperation with the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO). Dr. Kim is an expert in forest and wild land fire research and holds 15 patents for forest fire suppression and management systems, some of which are being used in South Korea as well as a number of other countries. His research carried out with ESM is contributing to the development of a fire weather index at national/regional level for Korea with an envisaged link to a global forest fire early warning system.Dr. Kim has been working at KFRI, South Korea since 2003, where he has focused on developing solutions for forest fire protection and management. He has built up a network of international collaboration partners on forest fire research with focus on the University of Coimbra, Portugal and Kyoto University, Japan.
Dr. Kim received his PhD in forest fire and disaster management from the Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan, in 2009. His PhD work focused on developing a prediction model for the spread of fire, based on numerical analysis.
Last update: 30 JAN 2013
Publications
Kim, D. (2026). Development of a Virtual Reality Training Program: Integrating FDS Simulation and Performance Optimization with Unreal Engine on Heterogeneous Hardware. In: Proceedings of Tenth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology. Eds. Yang, X.S., Sherratt, R.S., Dey, N., & Joshi, A., pp. 235-243 Singapore: Springer. ISBN 978-981-96-9709-0 10.1007/978-981-96-9709-0_16.
Kim, D. (2026). Smart IoT Water Curtain System for Protecting Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Village from Forest Fires. In: Proceedings of Tenth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology. Eds. Yang, X.S., Sherratt, R.S., Dey, N., & Joshi, A., pp. 245-255 Singapore: Springer. ISBN 978-981-96-9709-0 10.1007/978-981-96-9709-0_17.
Almeida, M. & Kim, D. (2025). Introduction to self-protection systems. In: Scientific perspectives on wildfire risk management at the property scale of WUI. Eds. Almeida, M., pp. 247-249 Coimbra, Portugal: Coimbra University Press. ISBN 978-989-26-2687-1 10.14195/978-989-26-2687-1.
Kim, D. (2025). A water sprinkler system for establishing fire protection lines and protecting large areas. In: Scientific perspectives on wildfire risk management at the property scale of WUI. Eds. Almeida, M., pp. 259-290 Coimbra, Portugal: Coimbra University Press. ISBN 978-989-26-2687-1 10.14195/978-989-26-2687-1.
Viegas, D.X., Oliveira, R., Almeida, M., & Kim, D.H. (2021). Ignition of Fuel Beds by Cigarettes: A Conceptual Model to Assess Fuel Bed Moisture Content and Wind Velocity Effect on the Ignition Time and Probability. Fire 4 (3) e35. 10.3390/fire4030035.