Gavin Horn is a Research Director with the Firefighter Safety Research Institute (FSRI) of UL Research Institutes. Prior to joining the FSRI team, he served as the Director of the IFSI Research Program for 15 years and as a firefighter, apparatus engineer and fire investigator with the Savoy (IL) Fire Department. Gavin’s research interests include firefighter health and safety and first responder technology development. Gavin holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as a ME in Fire Protection Engineering from the University of Maryland. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal manuscripts and given presentations at meetings, conferences and symposia around the world.