April 4-15th Professor of the University of Zurich and the Federal Polytechnic Institute, Dr. Kai-Uwe Schmitt will be visiting VILNIUS TECH and giving lectures on the biomechanics of trauma.

The modern everyday life of a person involves a lot of movement in various ways, traveling and sports. An active person can suffer injuries in the work environment or during sports.

Trauma biomechanics is an important area of research that investigates the biomechanics of various injuries, that is, what mechanisms and causes lead to one or another trauma.

This knowledge is important in order to design safer vehicles, create safe sports and rehabilitation equipment, and technical aids for the disabled. Rehabilitation reduces the consequences of injuries, and modern rehabilitation is unimaginable without modern rehabilitation technologies.

The topics and lectures of the offered course by Dr. Kai-Uwe Schmitt will be interesting and useful for students of engineering specialties - transport and mechanical engineering, bioengineering, as well as medical specialties - medicine, rehabilitation.

PD Dr. Kai-Uwe Schmitt is Professor at the University of Zurich and the Federal Polytechnic Institute, Secretary of the International Council on Injury Biomechanics (IRCOBI), Consultant to the Swiss Federal Office of Roads, Partner / Board Member and Chief Investigator of the Accident Mechanics Working Group (AGU Zurich).

The world-renowned researcher has received a number of awards for his research in the field of automotive transport safety and has participated in and led dozens of different research projects related to safe transport vehicles and problem solving using modern biomechanical science methods.

There are no specific educational requirements for those wishing to participate in the lectures, except knowledge of the English language.

All those wishing to participate in the lectures must register at crypt:a290cnluYS5zaWxlaWt5dGVAdmlsbml1c3RlY2gubHQ=:xx.

Information about the lectures and timetable can be found here.