FSRI Welcomes New Post-Doctoral Researcher - Conor McCoy

Meet our new Post-Doctoral Researcher, Conor McCoy!

Conor is a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the Fire Safety Research Institute (FSRI), part of UL Research Institutes. He joined the team in 2021 after completing his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with the University of Maryland. He also has a M.S. and B.S. in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland. While working on his Master’s degree, Conor researched methods to improve the reproducibility of refrigerant flammability limit testing and developed a revised apparatus and procedure. His doctoral research concerned characterization of flame heat feedback and oxidative pyrolysis for simulation of bench scale fire tests. His research interests are material flammability, pyrolysis modeling, and flame spread.