Astrid Linder is a Swedish engineer and researcher in

motor vehicle safety Road traffic safety refers to the methods and measures used to prevent road users from being killed or seriously injured. Typical road users include pedestrians, cyclists, Driving, motorists, vehicle passengers, horse riders, and passengers o ...

. For her contribution to the field, Linder was awarded EU Champions of Transport Research Competition and U.S. Government Award for Safety Engineering Excellence. In November 2023, Linder was named to the

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's 100 Women list.

Career

Linder completed a

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mechanical engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...

in the field of traffic safety in 2002. She has worked on the safety of both men and women during car accidents, but her pioneering work focuses on addressing the safety of women in road accidents, who are twice as much at risk compared to men drivers. Linder champions equal safety assessment for men and women, as the

crash dummy A crash test dummy, or simply dummy, is a full-scale anthropomorphic test device (ATD) that simulates the dimensions, weight proportions and articulation of the human body during a traffic collision. Dummies are used by researchers, automobile ...

often used by the industry (based on male morphology) does not account for weight distribution and dynamic responses of females. As a solution, Linder, along with her colleagues, developed EvaRID – an anthropomorphic average female virtual crash test dummy for safety assessment of women in vehicles. EvaRID has potential to be an instrumental tool in evaluating the safety of female drivers in cars. Her expertise includes biomechanics, occupant kinematics, vehicle crash injury prevention, mathematical simulations and dynamic testing. She currently holds the position of professor of Traffic Safety at

Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute ( sv, Statens väg- och transportforskningsinstitut, VTI) is a public research institution with focus on transportation in Sweden. The head office is located in Linköping, where most of th ...

and adjunct professor at

Chalmers University of Technology Chalmers University of Technology ( sv, Chalmers tekniska högskola, often shortened to Chalmers) is a Swedish university located in Gothenburg that conducts research and education in technology and natural sciences at a high international level ...

References

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