Jeff Crandall, PhD - University of Virginia

Principal Investigator, UAB Injury Control Research Center
Director, UVA Center for Applied Biomechanics
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Jeff Crandall, Director of the UVA Center for Applied Biomechanics, has focused his research on the mechanisms of injury under impact loading conditions. The author of nearly 100 scholarly articles and more than 200 additional conference presentations, book chapters, abstracts and posters, Dr. Crandall was selected in 2005 for a United States Government Award for Engineering Excellence. He is a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, where he serves as Chair of the Pedestrian Dummy Task Group. He is also a member of several other professional organizations including the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, which he served as President in 1999-2000, as well as other committee chairmanships and memberships. He is very active in his teaching duties, developing courses in biomechanics and supervising dozens of PhD and Masters students, post-doctoral fellows, and visiting professionals. He was editor of the journal Traffic Injury Prevention from 2002 to 2004, and continues to serve as a reviewer for several other academic journals in his field.

Dr. Crandall completed his BA in Engineering Sciences at Dartmouth College, then continued at the University of Virginia, earning a Masters of Engineering and a PhD from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He serves as a consultant to Autoliv, ASP, and has consulted, as well, with the US Department of Transportation. From 1999 through 2002, he served on the International Editorial Board of Vehicle Safety in the UK. He received the AAAM Best Paper Award in both 1996 and 2002, was selected for the Lloyd L. Withrow Distinguished Speaker Award (SAE) in 1999, and also received the Elaine Wodzin Young Achievers Award (AAAM) in 2001.