Anders Kullgren

Anders Kullgren

Affiliated to Research
Visiting address: Avd försäkringsmedicin, Karolinska Institutet, 17177 Stockholm
Postal address: K8 Klinisk neurovetenskap, K8 Fm Friberg, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • *Awards*
    * “Guldhunden” from the company Cerberus in 1995. Every year the Swiss
    company Cerberus distributes the safety award. Cerberus is one of the
    largest manufacturers of automatic fire alarm systems. Folksams research
    department got the award with the motivation: Safety improving research
    regarding injury risks in road traffic accidents.
    * The “Bertil Aldman Award” for outstanding contributions to the subject
    on impact biomechanics, from the International Research Council on the
    Biomechanics of Injury (IRCOBI), 2008.
    University education
    Master of Science, Aeronautical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology,
    Stockholm, 1988.
    *Doctors degree*
    Thesis for the degree of Doctor in Philosophy, faculty of Medicine,
    Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 1998.
    /Research area:/ Personal injuries in road traffic accidents.
    /Title:/ Validity and Reliability of Vehicle Collision Data: Crash Pulse
    recorders for Impact Severity and Injury Risk Assessments in Real-Life
    Frontal Collisions.
    /Supervisors/: Åke Nygren and Claes Tingvall.
    *Post doc*
    Post Doctoral Fellowship at Monash University Accident Research Centre,
    Melbourne, Australia, 1999-10-15 – 2000-04-14.
    *Associate Professor*
    Associate Professor at the Crash Safety Division of the Institution for
    Applied Mechanics at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, 2002.
    *Professor*
    Professor in Traffic Safety at the Crash Safety Division of the Institution
    for Applied Mechanics at Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, 2011.

Research

  • The aim of the research is to map parameters influencing the risk to be
    injured in road traffic accidents. The different projects are to a large
    extent based on accident data from Folksam, where an important source of
    information comes from crash pulse recorders, so called black boxes. They
    give information of the forces acting on the human in a crash. Together with
    data on injury outcome, detailed information of the car, the use of restraint
    systems and of how the road environment was designed, factors influencing the
    injury outcome are analyzed. The research is also based on more comprehensive
    data but with lower degree of detail, such as all crashes reported in Sweden
    reported by the police and hospitals (STRADA). These studies are more of an
    epidemiological kind.

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Employments

  • Affiliated to Research, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 2025-2026

Degrees and Education

  • Doctor Of Philosophy, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, 1998

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