Event

Astrid Linder, VTI and Division of Vehicle Safety, Department of Applied Mechanics, Chalmers University of Technology, welcomes you to her docent lecture.

Title: Traffic Safety and Whiplash Injury Prevention  ​

Astrid Linder was awarded a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in the field of Traffic Safety in 2002. Since then she has acquired extensive research experience in the area of biomechanics, occupant kinematics, vehicle crash injury prevention, mathematical simulations and dynamic testing. She has taught and supervised graduate students, lectured worldwide and initiated and managed the project that developed the world first virtual crash test dummy model of an average female, EvaRID.

In her current role as Research Director of Traffic Safety at The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI), she continues to work towards increasing traffic safety in general, and specifically through the development of injury prevention tools that take male and female physical differences into account.

The lecture will outline the history of traffic safety advancement in Sweden over the last few decades and present the latest developments in occupant modelling in the area of whiplash protection in rear-end crashes. 

​“Nobody should lose their life or health in road traffic. This lecture highlights how increased traffic safety has been and still can be further achieved.”
– Astrid Linder

Everyone is welcome!