In today’s episode, I’m thrilled to speak to a global female leader and professor of Traffic Safety at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, Astrid Linder.

Not only is Astrid is the Professor of Traffic Safety at Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, VTI, she is also an Adjunct Professor of Injury Prevention at Chalmers University and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University Accident Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia. She received her PhD in traffic safety from Chalmers from where she also has an MSc in Engineering Physics. Traffic safety, models of the human in crash testing, injury prevention, and crash-related countermeasures are the main fields of her research, which she has extensively published and presented around the world.

Prof Linder coordinated the EU-funded project ADSEAT where the world’s first virtual dummy model of an average female for rear impact, EvaRID, was developed. She also coordinated the EU-funded project VIRTUAL in which the world’s first physical dummy model based on the average female, the Seat Evaluation Tool (SET 50F), was developed.

She has been appointed “Equality Star of the Year” by the Swedish Network for Equality in the Transport Sector (2020), presented with the US Government Safety Engineering Excellence (2015), the Volvo Research and Educational Foundations Håkan Frisinger Awards (2015), the EU Champions of Transport Research Road (2014) and the EU Champions of Transport Research Overall Winner Transport (2014). Be sure to watch until the end for her top tips and find out what her goals and plans are for the future.

00:00 -01:35 Introducing Astrid
01:35 – 05:40 Her Work
05:40 – 06:50 Motivation
06:50 – 08:40 Top Qualities
08:40 – 13:30 Top Tips
13:30 – 15:43 The Future