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Dr. Nathan Lima (Fed)
Dr. Nathan Lima is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation Group within the Energy and Environment Division (EED) of the Engineering Laboratory (EL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering Science from Washington State University, where he conducted research under the guidance of Dr. Von Walden, Dr. Brian Lamb, and Dr. W. Max Kirk. His doctoral work focused on environmental impacts on the United States residential building stock and indoor air quality (IAQ).
Dr. Lima joined NIST as a research associate in 2022 through the Professional Research Experience Program (PREP). In this capacity, he worked with the Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) and the American Housing Survey (AHS) databases to refine data models and update CONTAM models to reflect changes in the U.S. housing better. His contributions to this project were instrumental in developing an update to the original NIST Collection of Dwellings to Represent the U.S. Housing Stock (formally called a collection of homes to represent the U.S. housing stock).
In August 2024, Dr. Lima was awarded a National Research Council (NRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship. Beginning in December 2024, he started his NRC project research on Wildfire and the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI), which aims to evaluate the effects of WUI fires on IAQ and pollutant dynamics to protect American communities. This involves using multi-zone residential dwelling models, with environmental parameters defined by the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model, and historical wildfire data. Additionally, Dr. Lima is working on developing a NIST WUI surrogate crib standard and researching IAQ considerations for community wildfire shelters.
Dr. Lima's expertise extends to research design, planning, execution, IAQ instrument deployment, data acquisition, and instrument maintenance and repair.
Awards
National Research Council (NRC) Post-Doctoral Fellowship - Awarded August 2024