Dr. Albert has over 10 years of experience performing injury biomechanics research with applications to automotive and military safety. Her approach involves investigating human injury tolerance ranging from the material to whole-body levels. This multi-level approach is essential for the development and evaluation of crash test dummies and human body models, which are used to predict human injury risk during impact events. Several of Dr. Albert’s projects have focused on the evaluation of crash test dummy performance and injury risk prediction.
Expertise: Injury biomechanics, vehicle safety, occupant protection, impact testing, biofidelity evaluations, objective rating metrics, material property testing, bone material properties, thoracic injury, injury risk curve development
Let’s Connect
Phone
(734) 764-6504
Location
UMTRI
2901 Baxter Rd. Rm 158
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Primary Website
umtri.umich.edu
Additional Information
Education
- PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2018
- BS, Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2014
Awards and Service
- Best Paper Award, Stapp Car Crash Conference, 2023
- Best Student Paper Award, Stapp Car Crash Conference, 2018
- IRCOBI Council Member, 2025 – present
- IRCOBI Scientific Review Committee Member, 2020-2025
- Chair, SAE Occupant Protection Committee, 2022-2025
- Vice Chair, SAE Occupant Protection Committee, 2021-2022
- Session Chair, Occupant Protection: Biomechanics, SAE World Congress, 2020 – present
Key Projects
Publications
· Albert, D. L., Hardy, W. N., & Kemper, A. R. (2024). Effect of data censoring on thoracic injury risk curves. Traffic Injury Prevention, 25(sup1), S33–S42. https://doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2024.2405643
· Albert, D. L., Beeman, S. M., & Kemper, A. R. (2023). Comparative biofidelity of the Hybrid III and THOR 50th male ATDs under three restraint conditions during frontal sled tests. Traffic Injury Prevention, 24(sup1), S41–S46. https://doi.org/10.1080/15389588.2023.2176710
· Albert, D. L., Katzenberger, M. J., Agnew, A. M., & Kemper, A. R. (2021). A comparison of rib cortical bone compressive and tensile material properties: Trends with age, sex, and loading rate. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 122, 104668.
· Chan, H., Albert, D. L., Gayzik, F., & Kemper, A. R. (2021). Assessment of Acclimation of 5th Percentile Female and 50th Percentile Male Volunteer Kinematics in Low-Speed Frontal and Frontal-Oblique Sled Tests. SAE International Journal of Transportation Safety, 9(09-09-01-0001).
· Albert, D. L. (2020). Variations in User Implementation of the CORA Rating Metric. Stapp car crash journal, 64, 1-30.
· Katzenberger, M. J., Albert, D. L., Agnew, A. M., & Kemper, A. R. (2020). Effects of sex, age, and two loading rates on the tensile material properties of human rib cortical bone. Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials, 102, 103410.
· Albert, D. L., Beeman, S. M., & Kemper, A. R. (2018). Assessment of Thoracic Response and Injury Risk Using the Hybrid III, THOR-M, and Post-Mortem Human Surrogates under Various Restraint Conditions in Full-Scale Frontal Sled Tests. Stapp car crash journal, 62, 1-65.