Adam Barowy is a lead research engineer at UL's Fire Safety Research Institute (FSRI). In nine years of commercial fire research prior to joining FRSI, he worked to develop UL standards and test methods and evaluated emerging fire hazards and new and innovative fire protection solutions. Barowy advanced UL’s capabilities for characterizing the thermal, fire and explosion hazards of energy storage technologies and led the technical development of UL 9540A and UL’s large-scale ESS fire testing program. Prior to UL, he worked at National Institute of Standards and Technology, where he conducted full-scale structure fire field experiments to enable improved firefighting tactics, reconstructed LODD/injury fire incidents and evaluated firefighting equipment. Barowy volunteered with the Amherst, MA, Fire Department while he pursued his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He later graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a Master of Science in fire protection engineering.