Past events

After the course the participants will have gained a deep understanding of Vision Zero as a policy innovation and how it can affect working methods, as well as how a safe road transport system can be created

We are happy to be able to offer our partners the opportunity to participate in the International Advanced Course on Injury Biomechanics, that will be offered again this summer for the 8th time!

In conjunction to Malin Svärd’s doctoral thesis defence, her opponent Professor Brett Fajen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA will give a lecture about “Visual control of high-speed steering in cluttered environments: The FPV drone-racing task”.

We have a new adjunct professor in the SAFER community! Most welcome to Nils Lübbe's inaugural lecture "Learning from crash data to make road traffic safer".

Welcome to Anna Vadeby’s docent lecture "Traffic safety evaluation – speed, crashes and statistical methods"! Anna Vadeby is a senior researcher in the area of traffic safety at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI). Anna has a PhD in Mathematical Statistics in the field of Traffic Safety and Statistical Methods and a MSc in Mathematics and Physics

SAFER related researcher Dr. Giulio Bianchi Piccinini will give his Docent lecture "Understanding and modelling human behaviour during driving" on August 23, 2019.

Welcome to Jonas Östh's Docent Lecture "Bottom Up and Top Down: Developing and Applying Human Body Models for Safer Cars"! Bio and Abstract: Jonas Östh is working with frontal crash occupant safety analysis at the Volvo Cars Safety Centre. He has a Ph.D. from the School of Machine and Vehicle Systems since 2014 and a background as a researcher and

Sending a truck and a boat to the moon Ola Benderius is an assistant professor at the Division of Vehicle engineering and autonomous systems (VEAS). His academic background is in Complex adaptive systems (MSc), Machine and vehicle systems (PhD), and Autonomous machines. His present research interests are focusing on bio-inspired autonomous behaviour, bio-inspired perception, and cyberphysical systems. The research is

On Wednesday 27 March Lars Hammarstrand will hold a lecture in connection with his promotion to the academic title Oavlönad docent at the department. His lecture is titled "Where am I? - An existential question for a self-driving vehicle?".

Welcome to András Bálint docent lecture "Statistical methods in traffic safety" András Bálint obtained a Ph.D. degree in mathematics at VU University Amsterdam in 2009 and had two years of postdoctoral experience at the Department of Mathematics at Chalmers in the field of statistical mechanics and probability. Since 2012, he has worked at the Division of Vehicle Safety at the

Welcome to the next SAFER doctor dissertation with Ulrich Sander, industrial doctorate at Veoneer and Department of Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology.

Welcome to docent lecture by Nils Lübbe ”Predicting benefits and limitations of active safety systems for passenger cars”.

Marco Dozza is an associate professor in the division of Vehicle Safety, Chalmers and SAFER. His academic background is in Electrical Engineering (M.Sc.), Bioengineering (Ph.D.), Active Safety, and Human Factors. His present research focuses on modeling road-user behavior to support the design and evaluation of both active safety systems and automated driving. Current projects within the Road-User Vehicle Interaction group

Welcome to Jonas Bärgmans associate professor lecture! Jonas Bärgman is a researcher and group leader in the division of Vehicle Safety. His academic background is in Mechanical Engineering (M Sc) and he did his PhD in the area of traffic safety on methods for analysis of naturalistic driving data. His present research interests include methodological aspects of the use of

Professor Promotion Lecture: Vehicle Communication – Challenges and Current Research Where: Room ES52 (potentially switching to ED), EDIT-buildning, Hörsalsvägen 11, Campus Johanneberg . When: September 13, 2016 , at 10:00-12:00. More information Abstract Vehicular communication is one of the most challenging problems in communication engineering today, due to its uncoordinated structure together with strict requirements on reliability and latency to

Rikard Fredriksson, Department of Applied Mechanics, Chalmers University of Technology, welcomes you to his docent lecture. When: Monday, June 13, 2016, at 13:15 Where: Room "Demostudion", Lindholmspiren 3, Lindholmen Science Park, Gothenburg. Please ask the reception in the ground floor to let you in. Lecture Title: Protecting two-wheeler riders in car crashes Dr Rikard Fredriksson received his Master Degree in

Adjunct Associate Professor Lecture - Matthijs Klomp Welcome to Adjunct Associate Professor Lecture with Matthijs Klomp, May 18 2016! Where: Room HA3, Hörsalsvägen 4, Johanneberg. When: May 18 2016 , at 13:15-14:15. More information . ​​Dr. Matthijs Klomp is a technical specialist in computational vehicle dynamics at the driving dynamics centre at Volvo Cars and has over fifteen years of

Maturing of the research on human body models for traffic safety Location: Delta/Gamma Hörsalsvägen 7, Chalmers Campus Johanneberg When : August 27, 2015, 13:15-14:15 Dr. Karin Brolin received her PhD from the Royal Institute of Technology in 2002 where she continued as Assistant Professor for a few years. She then worked at a private consulting company providing sales and support

Martin Fagerström , Department of Applied Mechanics, Chalmers University of Technology, welcomes you to his docent lecture. Lecture Title: Computational Failure Mechanics - Challenges, Trends and Results Abstract Transportation road vehicles, aircraft and sea vessels all need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and increase energy efficiency. To realise these improvements, weight reduction is a key. As a consequence, an

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