Dr. Daniel Pérez Rapela

- Manage and assist with computational and experimental injury biomechanics projects focusing on vehicle occupant protection research - Supervise graduate students involved with different research projects - Prepare reports and scientific papers - Assist in the development of project proposals - Use Machine Learning for biomechanical data analysis

The SPC puts together vital research, papers, and presentations and is responsible for the programming and abstract process of the Annual Scientific Conference.

Members cooperate to affect or to produce solutions within the field of Automated Vehicles

Review of scientific manuscript submissions to ensure quality publications in the conference proceedings.

Review of scientific manuscripts to ensure their quality for publication.

Review of scientific manuscripts to ensure their quality for publication

- Far-Side Project Management (industry sponsored): Part of my responsibilities included the development of a research strategy and timeline with the sponsors and ensure its fulfillment. This involved the coordination of a group of 10 people to run PMHS and dummy tests and the development of surrogate-specific and biofidelity evaluation of HBM based on PMHS response. - Other Research Projects: - External biofidelity of pedestrian leg-form impactors - Underbody-blast-related leg injuries

- Supervision and coordination of simulation tasks for SEAT and Audi projects in a remarkably international environment. - Member of the Side Impact Passive Safety forum of the VW-Group. - In parallel, CAE modelling, correlation and development of improvement proposals in order to meet the targets.

--> Pedestrian protection for new SEAT models --> Side occupant protection for new Audi models - CAE modelling. - Generation of post-processing scripts for simulation results. - Tracking and supervision of technological suppliers in order to assure the meeting of targets and deadlines. - Support at the setting and interpretation of physical tests. - Correlation of test results. - Generation and development of improvement proposals.

--> Development of the frontal part of the SEAT Ibiza in order to pass the Bumper Test: - CAE modelling of the whole car with PAM-Crash. - Setting, supervision and analysis of the physical tests following the official protocols. - Correlation of the CAE model to represent the physical tests. - Generation and optimization of improvement concepts.

--> Internship in Germany: - 3D design with SolidWorks. - Development of a calibration device for brake testing facilities to meet the French homologation. - Carrying out several tests on electrical motors.

Thesis: "Methodology for the evaluation of vehicle occupant response variability to intrinsic and extrinsic factors including uncertainty". I specialize in Injury Biomechanics, the use and development of Human Body Models, Neural Networks, and Stochastic Analysis