Kathleen D. Klinich

Research Scientist

Dr. Klinich has 33 years of experience performing research on how to protect occupants in motor-vehicle crashes, particularly child passengers. She has experience in the analysis of motor-vehicle crashes and crash databases, crash dummy design, laboratory reconstruction of real-world loading events, injury criteria development, occupant-anthropometry and posture evaluation, engineering analysis of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS), child-passenger-safety issues evaluation, and finite element modeling.  Her most recent research efforts have focused on wheelchair transportation safety issues and autonomous vehicles, assessing factors contributing to motor-vehicle fatalities, and analysis of crash data to guide future safety priorities. 

Expertise: Occupant protection through a combination of experimental testing, computational modeling, and crash data analysis. Experimental testing, computational modeling focusing on developing injury prevention strategies for vulnerable occupant populations such as children, pregnant occupants, the elderly, and occupants in wheelchairs. 

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Phone

(734) 764-1114

Location

UMTRI

2901 Baxter Rd. Rm 2901

Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Primary Website

Dr. Klinich’s Website

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