Jeffrey O. Stull is President of International Personnel Protection, Inc., which provides expertise and research on the design, evaluation, selection, and use of personal protective clothing and equipment and related products to end users and manufacturers. He has conducted numerous studies relative to the effectiveness and performance of protective clothing and equipment in a variety of applications. Stull is the past chairman of the American Society for Testing and Materials F23 Committee on Protective Clothing, a member of several National Fire Protection Association technical committees on emergency responder protective clothing and related equipment, a participant in the government’s Interagency Board for Equipment Standardization and Interoperability, and the former lead U.S. delegate to the International Standards Organization for Protective Clothing. He was president of TRI/Environmental, Inc. from 1988 to 1993, an organization that provided certification testing and conducted research projects related to protective clothing.

He was a project officer for the U.S. Coast Guard Office of Research and Development from 1983 to 1988, where he headed several programs related to personnel protection. He has an M.S. degree in chemical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, an M.S. degree in engineering management from the Catholic University of America, and a B.S. degree in physical sciences from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. He is well-published in all areas related to protective clothing and equipment, including peer-reviewed articles related to protective clothing performance. He is a subject matter expert in the area of personal protective equipment.