Who is involved
The IRCOBI Council consists of members from all over the world. Members are elected on their individual merits and not as representatives of specific countries, corporations, academic institutions or government agencies. Their expertise is in conducting and encouraging research on biomechanics and injury mechanisms, in leading debate on research findings and in encouraging publication of these findings in the IRCOBI proceedings as well as in other peer-reviewed scientific journals.
The IRCOBI Council members are recognised specialists in their field and have considerable experience in impact biomechanics, crash investigation, injury assessment and outcomes, blast and sports injuries, constitutive modelling and passive safety research. Using the research work submitted and presented at the annual conferences as well as through other peer-reviewed technical literature, they are in a unique position to identify the state of current knowledge. They also have a commanding position to identify areas where further basic and applied research can produce substantial improvements in road user safety.
During 2013 the IRCOBI Council established a Scientific Review Committee to increase the pool of researchers to participate in the technical manuscript review process. As with the Council, Committee members come from many countries around the world and are invited to serve on their individual merits.
Council Members
- Amanda AGNEW, USA, vice-president
- Peter CRIPTON, Canada
- Scott GAYZIK, USA
- Valentina GRACI, USA
- David HYND, United Kingdom
- Lotta JAKOBSSON, Sweden
- Heiko JOHANNSEN, Germany
- Yun Seok KANG, USA
- Andrew KEMPER, USA
- Jason KERRIGAN, USA
- Corina KLUG, Austria
- Nils LUBBE, Sweden, treasurer
- Spyros MASOUROS, United Kingdom, president
- Bingbing NIE, China
- Matthew PANZER, USA, secretary
- Steffen PELDSCHUS, Germany
- Matt REED, USA
- Rodney RUDD, USA
- Gunter SIEGMUND, USA
- Helena STIGSON, Sweden
- Yukou TAKAHASHI, Japan
- Gregory TIERNEY, United Kingdom
- Qing ZHOU, China
Secretariat
- Kai-Uwe SCHMITT, Switzerland
Members of the Scientific Review Committee (SRC)
- Devon ALBERT, USA
- Ahmed ALSHAREEF, USA
- Victor ALVAREZ, Sweden
- Gretchen BAKER, USA
- Adam BARTSCH, USA
- Dale BASS, USA
- Philippe BEILLAS, France
- Kavi BHALLA, USA
- Lynne BILSTON, Australia
- Katarina BOHMAN, Sweden
- John BOLTE, USA
- Stephanie BONIN, USA
- Karin BROLIN, Sweden
- Matt BRUMBELOW, USA
- Julaluk CARAMAI, Thailand
- Jolyon CARROLL, Sweden
- Duane CRONIN, Canada
- Kerry DANELSON, USA
- Julia DE LANGE, Canada
- Christopher DENNISON, Canada
- Karan DEVANE, USA
- Bruce DONNELLY, USA
- Dustin DRAPER, Germany
- Andre EGGERS, Germany
- Benjamin, ELKIN, Canada
- Madelen FAHLSTEDT, Sweden
- Jörg FEHR, Germany
- Tanner FILBEN, USA
- John FINAN, USA
- Bronislaw GEPNER, USA
- Mazdak GHAJARI, United Kindom
- Masahito HITOSUGI, Japan
- Jingwen HU, USA
- Randee HUNTER, USA
- Johan IRAEUS, Sweden
- Daisuke ITO, Japan
- Tomohiro IZUMIYAMA, Japan
- Dhaval JANI, Germany
- Songbai JI, USA
- Jobin JOHN, Sweden
- Mirko JUNGE, Germany
- Christoph KLEIN, Austria
- Svein KLEIVEN, Sweden
- Kathleen KLINICH, USA
- Anders KULLGREN, Sweden
- Sébastien LAPORTE, France
- Matthieu LEBARBE, France
- Xiaogai LI, Sweden
- Astrid LINDER, Sweden
- Francisco J. LOPEZ-VALDES, Spain
- Ann MALLORY, USA
- Haojie MAO, Canada
- Shiyang MENG, Sweden
- Frank MEYER, France
- Andrew MORRIS, United Kingdom
- Barclay MORRISON III, USA
- Becky MUELLER, USA
- Jonas ÖSTH, Sweden
- Simon OUELLET, Canada
- Ruth PAAS, Germany
- Daniel PEREZ-RAPELA, USA
- Mat PHILIPPENS, The Netherlands
- Bengt PIPKORN, Sweden
- Norbert PRAXL, Germany
- Pradeep PUTHAN, India
- Cheryl QUENNEVILLE, Canada
- Ravishankar RAJARAMAN, India
- Rakshit RAMACHANDRA, USA
- Luke E. RIEXINGER, USA
- Carolyn ROBERTS, USA
- Jonathan RUPP, USA
- Debasis SAHOO, Germany
- Robert SALZAR, USA
- Babtiste SANDOZ, France
- Fusako SATO, Japan
- Sylvia SCHICK, Germany
- Ciaran SIMMS, Ireland
- Ricardo de SOUSA, Portugal
- Akshara SREEDHAR, USA
- Brian STEMPER, USA
- Takahiko SUGIYAMA, Japan
- Mats SVENSSON, Sweden
- Robert THOMSON, Sweden
- Hideo TOHIRA, Australia
- Suzanne TYLKO, Canada
- Jilian URBAN, USA
- Lex VAN ROOIJ, Germany
- Costandinos VISVIKIS, United Kingdom
- Xuguang WANG, France
- Ashley WEAVER, USA
- Tom WHYTE, Australia
- Taotao WU, USA
Past Council Members
- Bertil ALDMAN (1971-1990, deceased 1998)
- Hermann APPEL (1975-1999, deceased 2002)
- Johannes BASTIAANSE (1971-1985, deceased 2009)
- Ola BOSTROM (2015-2018)
- Karin BROLIN (2015-2025)
- Dominique CESARI (1983-2011)
- Jean-Pierre COTTE (1971-1983)
- Duane CRONIN (2009-2019)
- Jeff R. CRANDALL (1997-2016)
- Rikard FREDRIKSSON (2020-2025)
- Bernd FRIEDEL (1982-1999)
- Thomas GENNARELLI (1990-2017)
- Yuichi KITAGAWA (2019-2020)
- Klaus LANGWIEDER (1997-2010, deceased 2020)
- Jean LEROY (1971-2001, deceased 2016)
- Francisco J. LOPEZ-VALDES (2015-2025)
- Per LÖVSUND (1992-2017)
- Elaine MACKAY (1988-2017)
- Murray MACKAY (1971-2017)
- Jack MCLEAN (2000-2008)
- Hugo MELLANDER (2002-2011)
- Dinesh MOHAN (1992-2017, deceased 2021)
- Barclay MORRISON III (2013-2025)
- Sudipto MUKHERJEE (2010-2020)
- Erik NORDENTOFT (1979-1992, deceased)
- Koshiro ONO (1997-2017)
- Dietmar OTTE (1993-2017)
- Ravishankar RAJARAMAN (2017-2024)
- Stephen RIDELLA (2012-2017)
- Kai-Uwe SCHMITT (2010-2020)
- Ciaran SIMMS (2009-2019)
- Damien SUBIT (2016-2020)
- Pete THOMAS (1997-2017)
- Frederik VAN FAASSEN (1971-1982, deceased 2001)
- Michiel VAN RATINGEN (2012-2018)
- Lex VAN ROOIJ (2020-2025)
- Philippe VEZIN (2010-2020)
- Felix H. WALZ (1984-2014)
- Jac WISMANS (1983-2017)
- Alain WISNER (1971-1976, deceased 2004)
- King YANG, USA (2012-2022, deceased 2023)
- Narayan YOGANANDAN (2009-2014)