Past events

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

The H2020 Dreams4Cars research project (a Research and Innovation Action funded under the EU Robotics banner) deals with the architecture, and the abilities, of agents that should be capable of learning reliable driving and natural human-robot interactions.

Welcome to a SAFER seminar - in cooperation with Halmstad Unversity and Future Mobility Center A highly topical seminar on the intersection of AI and digital service innovation. Specially targeted towards the community of Future Mobility Center (by invitation). Speaker: Pontus Wärnestål, Associate Professor at Halmstad University and Director of Service Design at inUse. Time and location: June 10 at

Welcome to Master thesis days at SAFER, June 10-11, 2019!

Welcome to a SAFER seminar with Dr. Pin Wang, California PATH at UC Berkeley, about Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Driving Dr. Pin Wang, researcher at California PATH, UC Berkeley, is visiting Chalmers and for two months, from mid-April to mid-June. Her research focus is on autonomous driving with machine learning algorithms, e.g. driving maneuver with reinforcement learning and inverse reinforcement

The purpose of the meeting is discuss and initiate project ideas in the context of our roadmap for the Research Area Human Body Protection (HBP) within SAFER. Please note that this meeting is for Reference group members at SAFER only! Agenda: 12:00 – 12:15 Intro, presentation, expectations Lotta Jakobsson 12:15 – 13:30 Short inspiration presentations (titles are tentative!) An example

Did you miss the Swedish Transport Administation's result conference in Stockholm in April? Then we can offer you a shorter version of the event and insights in the current status of Sweden's progress towards zero fatalaties and injuries in traffic on May 23. Matteo Rizzi, road safety analyst, Swedish Transport Administration and member of SAFER's management will present and answer

Welcome to a SAFER Thursday seminar on May 9, 2019 at 11.30-12.30! This week’s seminar is on the SAFER-flagship theme “Virtual Human Safety Models” and chaired by Lotta Jakobsson, Research Area Director Human Body Protection. SAFER-flagships serve the purpose to showcase and create future success stories to address one or several challenges related to ”Safe transport from door to door”

Welcome to celebrate SAFER’s end of Stage 4 and start of Stage 5! We invite you to a lunch party with mingle, food, presentations and snapshots of SAFER's impact and achievements during the last three years of research and collaboration. PROGRAM 11:30 Doors open 11:30-11:45 Mingle & welcome drinks 11:45 Speeches 12:00-13:30 Snapshot presentations of SAFER’s projects, the benefits to

Welcome to the second Research area day for 2019!

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?".

Alberto Morando will defend his thesis "Drivers' response to attentional demand in automated driving" on March 21, 2019. Alberto is a PhD student at Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Vehicle Safety. The opponent is Prof. John Lee from University of Wisconsin. A light lunch will be served after the defense. If you want to join the lunch, please let Sonja

Welcome to a SAFER seminar with Prof. John Lee! We are honored with a visit by renowned researcher John D. Lee, Emerson Electric Professor at Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI on March 20 and you are welcome to share his knowledge at the seminar "Automated vehicle communication and cooperation with pedestrians and other road

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

Välkommen till en heldag med kunskaps- och erfarenhetsutbyte om barns och ungas trygghet och säkerhet i trafikmiljön.

Welcome to a SAFER Thursday seminar on February 28! Week 9’s seminar is organized by the SAFER research area “Road User Behaviour” and hosted by Tania Dukic Willstrand, Research area director. “Safety Through automation?” How to ensure that automated and connected driving contribute to a safer transportation system. Speaker: Anders Lindström, Research Director for the Driver and Vehicle group at

Welcome to SAFER's next dissertation! Fusako Sato, Department of Mechanics and Maritime Sciences, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, will defend her thesis with preliminary title “Does Spinal Alignment Influence the Car Occupant Response? - The influence of variation in the whole spinal alignment patterns on vertebral kinematics under rear impact conditions”. Faculty opponent will be Professor Duane Cronin, Department

Welcome to a SAFER seminar with Professor Duane Cronin, University of Waterloo, Canada Duane Cronin is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Director of the Impact Mechanics and Material Characterization (IMMC) lab, and Canada Research Chair in Trauma Biomechanics and Injury Prevention (tBIP) at the University of Waterloo. Professor Cronin will be the faculty opponent at

Welcome to the first Research area day 2019