Nathaniel Sauer

Nathaniel Sauer is a postdoctoral researcher for the Fire Safety Research Institute (FSRI), which is part of the UL Research Institutes. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and PhD in fire protection engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. At FSRI, Sauer is in the nonstructure fires research group and has worked on full-scale burn and suppression tests of electric vehicles, explosion hazard analysis from battery thermal runaway gas, e-mobility device failure in commuter railcars and stranded energy dissipation of fire damaged batteries.