Dr. Matthew Hoehler is the Chief of the Fire Research Division. The division is comprised of five groups conducting research in engineered fire safety, firefighting technology, flammability reduction, wildland-urban interface fire, and large-scale fire experiments (The National Fire Research Laboratory). Dr. Hoehler has over twenty-five years of experience in experimental testing and analysis of the performance of materials, components, and structures associated with structural collapse, natural disasters, or human-initiated events.
Dr. Yang joined NIST in 1990 as a NIST/ASEE Postdoctoral Fellow and is presently Deputy Chief of the Fire Research Division and Group Leader of the Engineered Fire Safety Group. He has conducted research on fire dynamics and suppression, halon replacements, droplets and sprays, aerosol dynamics, micro-gravity combustion, two-phase flows, hydrogen fire safety, greenhouse gas emission measurements, and transportation fire safety.
Dr. Anthony D. Putorti is the Group Leader for the Fire Fighting Technology Group. He's a Fire Protection Engineer with extensive experience in high energy arc fault experiments, fire investigations, and vehicle fires.
Dr. Rick D. Davis is the Group Leader of and a materials research engineer in the Flammability Reduction Group. Dr. Davis addresses the measurement science needs of the polymer nanocomposite community by developing and utilizing Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy, Fluorescence spectroscopy, and Dielectric spectroscopy to quantify nanoparticle concentration, dispersion, and distribution in polymer matrices.
Dr. Matthew F. Bundy is the Director of and a supervisory mechanical engineer in the National Fire Research Laboratory (NFRL). Dr. Bundy joined NIST in 1999 as a NRC/NIST Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Fire Research Division and studied suppression of low strain rate laminar diffusion flames in microgravity.
Thomas G. Cleary is the Group Leader for the Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Group. Mr. Cleary participates in codes and standards work and currently is a committee member of NFPA 72: National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code, NFPA 76: Standard for the Fire Protection of Telecommunications Facilities, UL 1994: Luminous Egress Path Marking Systems, UL 924: and participates in task groups for UL 217: Single and Multiple Station Smoke Alarms, and UL 268: Smoke Detectors for Fire Protective Signaling Systems.