Astrid Linder is Professor and Research Director of Traffic Safety at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute VTI and Adjunct Professor of Injury Prevention at Chalmers University. Traffic safety, models of the human in crash testing, injury prevention and crash related countermeasures are main fields of her research activity in which she has extensively published and presented around the world during the last two decades. She has been appointed expert of the Transport Advisory Group (TAG) and Advisory Group on Gender for the research programme Horizon 2020 by the European Commission during 2014-2017. Astrid is a FERSI Board Member.