Adam Barowy
Biography
Adam Barowy is a principal research engineer for the Fire Safety Research Institute (FSRI), part of UL Research Institutes. In nine years of commercial fire research prior to joining FRSI, Adam worked to develop UL Standards and Test Methods, and evaluated emerging fire hazards, and new and innovative fire protection solutions. Adam 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, Adam worked at NIST where he conducted full-scale structure fire field experiments to enable improved firefighting tactics, reconstructed LODD/injury fire incidents and evaluated firefighting equipment. Adam volunteered with the Amherst Fire Department while pursuing his bachelor's 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.
Recently Published Research
- EV Fires vs. Gas-Powered Vehicle Fires: Air Contamination Risks Explored in a New Article | Nov. 4, 2025
- Journal Article Examines Heat Exposure from Electric Vehicle Fires | Oct. 3, 2025
- Researchers Complete Experiments Investigating the Effectiveness of Water Suppression on Electric Vehicle Fires | Dec. 5, 2024
Resources
- Evaluation of combustion products in air from electric and internal combustion engine vehicles during full-scale fire experiments (Peer-reviewed Publication)
- Heat Exposure from Electric Vehicle Fires: Experimental Results and Analysis (Peer-reviewed Publication)
- Experimental investigation of explosion hazard from lithium-ion battery thermal runaway effluent gas (Peer-reviewed Publication)
