Karin Brolin has worked in the field of impact biomechanics throughout her career. Brolin earned her Ph.D. in 2002 at the Royal Institute of Technology, and since then she has worked in both academia and industry on the topic of human body injury mechanisms and tolerances. For ten years she led a research group focusing on human body simulations for traffic safety and injury prevention, as Professor in Computational Impact Biomechanics at Chalmers University of Technology. Since, 2019 Dr. Brolin works as an independent consultant and researcher.

Dr. Davis earned his BS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  He earned his MS and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering.  During his time at VT-WFU, Dr. Davis was a member of the Full Body Models Center of Expertise of the GHBMC, an industry-sponsored and government supported effort to develop a suite of industry-standard FE human body models for crash injury prediction and prevention.  His dissertation work was focused on the development of a human body FE model of a small female.  His interests span multiple areas in injury biomechanics including the development of computational human body models.

Dirk Freßmann is a senior engineer at DYNAmore GmbH, responsible for the area of human modeling for almost 15 years. After receiving his diploma in civil engineering at the University of Dortmund, Germany in 1999 he finished his doctoral thesis (Dr.-Ing) about single and multi-material ALE methods for particulate solids at the University of Hannover in 2004. He then spent 18 month at the University of Newcastle, Australia developing solver technologies for geomechanical applications. After returning back to Germany he started his work at DYNAmore in Stuttgart and is since then deeply interested in the area of human modeling and providing tools and solutions for pre- and post-processing of these models.

Kai Ikels studied automotive engineering at the Technical University of Berlin. As a student he worked in the research project “Protection criteria for the human head” funded by the German federal highway research institute (BASt). He works as CAE Engineer in the field of occupant protection simulation using multibody and finite element simulation tools. Working with human Body model THUMS as a tool to evaluate new occupant restraint systems became part of his daily work. In 2016 he joined the “ProHMSiG” team at IAT focussing on a positioning tool for human models for automotive safety applications.

Corina Klug is associate professor at the Vehicle Safety Institute of Graz University of Technology in Austria, where she teaches students in the field of Vehicle Safety and Trauma Biomechanics and performs research on accident and injury prevention with a special focus on the usage of Human Body Models for safety assessments. Since 2015, she has led the CoHerent project in which the first certification procedure for human body models was developed for Euro NCAP. In 2019 she became the secretary of the newly founded Euro NCAP working group for Virtual Testing Crashworthiness. She is one of the two pilots of the new initiative HBM4VT, a framework of international experts to develop a roadmap for Human Body Models usage in Virtual Testing. In 2016 she has won the Young Scientist Award for the best research work in digital Human Modelling presented at the 2016 International Symposium "Human Modelling and Simulation in Automotive Engineering".

Emma Larsson earned a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Chalmers University of Technology in 2016. After graduating she worked as a CAE engineer in the automotive industry, before returning to Chalmers as a PhD student in 2018. Her research topic is on the development of active human body models, with the aim of allowing for simulation of vehicle occupant response to omni-directional pre-crash events.

Christoph Leo holds a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Graz University of Technology (Austria). Since 2018 he is a research assistant at the Vehicle Safety Institute at TU Graz. His research is focussed on injury analyses and prevention of vulnerable road users.

Thanassis Lioras pursued his diploma in Mechanical Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, followed by completing his master's thesis in Computational Mechanics at the National Technical University of Athens. Since 2008, he has been working at BETA CAE Systems SA, contributing as a software developer specialized in Crash and Safety applications. Over the past few years, he has played a pivotal role in the development of tools for Human Body Models, collaborating closely with the relevant communities. Currently, he serves as a Senior Supervisor in the Crash and Safety Applications department.

Bengt graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from Chalmers University in 1989. In 1996 a dissertation in the area of injury prevention was successfully defended. In 1996 he joined Autoliv Research where he from 2005 – 2025 was director. In 2025 he joined Volvo Cars as a Technical Leader in Injury Prevention methods. Since 2016 he is also an adjunct professor in protective systems at Chalmers University. The research interests are in the area of biomechanics, human body modelling, injury mechanisms and injury prevention.

Mr. Lambros Rorris has studied Civil Engineering in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) (1987 – 1993). He worked as a research assistant in the dept. of Civil Engineering of AUTh from 1993 - 1998. Since 1999 he is with BETA CAE Systems as a developer in Crash, Safety, and crash solvers support. Currently he is the Group Director leading the Crash and Safety R&D Group of BETA CAE Systems International AG.

Thomas Unger studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Dresden from 2000-2006 and graduated with a degree in automotive engineering. As a student, he worked as part of the GIDAS project, where he assisted in the collection and recording of accident data, photogrammetric accident site surveys, and reconstruction of pedestrian accidents. From 2005 to 2018, he managed the ADAC accident research at the Technical Center Landsberg am Lech. Since July 2018, he is head of data analysis and simulation in Verkehrsunfallforschung an der TU Dresden GmbH.