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Short biographical sketch of Leonard Evans ( click here for more details )
Revised 2008-11-06 |
Leonard Evans is an internationally renowned traffic safety expert who holds a doctorate in physics from Oxford University, England. He has presented traffic-safety lectures, including 22 Keynote Addresses, in 30 countries. His 169 publications include Traffic Safety (2004) and his distinctly different earlier book Traffic Safety and the Driver (1991). His research has appeared in 48 different technical journals. Dr. Evans has received many recognitions, including awards from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the International Association for Accident and Traffic Medicine, the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology, the Society of Automotive Engineers, and General Motors. He has been president of the International Traffic Medicine Association (ITMA) and the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM), the only individual to have headed both organizations. He is president of Science Serving Society, a one-man organization he formed in 2000 to continue research and other professional activities after completing a 33-year research career with GM. Dr. Evans was a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer (2001-2), and recipient of the Society of Automotive Engineer’s Lloyd L. Withrow Distinguished Speaker Award (2005, and also 2006). He is a fellow of the SAE, a fellow of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Revised 2008-10-24 |
