Activities
Conferences
Talks, posters, and prizes at the meetings the lab attends.
2026
Short Communication: Computational Prediction of Mandibular Muscle Forces During Sporting Head Impacts
IRCOBI 2026, Munich
E Koumantou, J E Lloyd, B Sagl, M Ghajari
Short Communication: Predicting Sport-Related Brain Injury via Head Kinematics, Finite Element Brain Modelling, and Plasma Biomarkers
IRCOBI 2026, Munich
J W Hickey, E Y K Chan, L J Evans, W T O’Brien, B Xie, S S Roberts, S E Butler, J Ernest, W J Q Zhou, K A Zimmerman, G Spitz, T D Parker, T J O’Brien, S R Shultz, D J Sharp, M Ghajari, S J McDonald
Dr Emily Yik Kwan ChanDr Karl (Gus) ZimmermanProf Mazdak GhajariProceedings (PDF)
Short Communication: MMDLNet: A Multimodal Deep Learning Network for Post-Collision Injury Prediction
IRCOBI 2026, Munich
Z Zou, M Elsegood, G Ponte, S Doecke, A Majumdar, C E Baker
Short Communication: A Comparative Study of Injury Risk in Collapsible and Conventional Bicycle Helmets
IRCOBI 2026, Munich
W Dawber, X Yu, V Darvishi, M Ghajari
Prof Mazdak GhajariVahid DarvishiDr William DawberDr Xiancheng YuProceedings (PDF)
Short Communication: Does a Chin Bar-Mounted Action Camera Increase Head Injury Risk in Facial Impacts?
IRCOBI 2026, Munich
S Meng, L Low, M Ghajari
Short Communication: Facial Impact Conditions for Assessing Motorcycle Helmets, Informed by Reconstruction of Real-World Collisions.
IRCOBI 2026, Munich
L Low, C Baker, W Dawber, S Meng, M Ghajari
Dr Claire BakerDr Lucas LowProf Mazdak GhajariDr William DawberProceedings (PDF)
Best presentation
Short Communication: CT-Derived Lesion Descriptors of Intracranial Haemorrhage and their Association with Injury Severity and Outcome
IRCOBI 2026, Munich
H Kelsey, T V Vyvere, V Newcombe, N Wang, A Marzo, F Lecky, X Yu
Short Communication: Non-Uniform Effects of Cerebral Volume on Subject-Specific Brain Strain Across Multiple Head Impacts
IRCOBI 2026, Munich
E Chan, M Ghajari
Short Communication: Investigating the role of axonal strain in brain white matter damage using biomechanical modelling of normal pressure hydrocephalus
IRCOBI 2026, Munich
V Darvishi, M D Giovane, M C B David, M A Kolanko, P A Malhotra, C Carswell, D J Sharp, M Ghajari
Not one threshold fits all: comparing brain injury metrics at equivalent brain deformation across sports
ISBS 2026, Loughborough
Oral presentation by Emily Chan in the “Head impacts in sport” session. Proceedings to appear in a Sports Biomechanics special issue.
Vahid Darvishi — Concussion/Brain Injury III (OA169)
World Congress of Biomechanics 2026, Vancouver
Scheduled oral presentation, supported by travel grants including the Guarantors of Brain. Vahid was unable to travel because of visa restrictions; the work was presented on his behalf.
Claire Baker — Concussion/Brain Injury I (OA133)
World Congress of Biomechanics 2026, Vancouver
Oral presentation in the Concussion/Brain Injury I session.
Elena Koumantou — Biomechanics in Practice (OA128)
World Congress of Biomechanics 2026, Vancouver
Oral presentation in the Biomechanics in Practice session.
Emily Chan — Concussion/Brain Injury II (OA145)
World Congress of Biomechanics 2026, Vancouver
Oral presentation in the Concussion/Brain Injury II session.
Lucas Low — Motor Vehicle-Related Injury (OA121)
World Congress of Biomechanics 2026, Vancouver
Oral presentation in the Motor Vehicle-Related Injury session.
Emily Chan — Computational Modeling of Injury II (OA58)
World Congress of Biomechanics 2026, Vancouver
Oral presentation in the Computational Modeling of Injury II session.
Mazdak Ghajari — Field Measurements of Injury (OA6)
World Congress of Biomechanics 2026, Vancouver
Oral presentation in the Field Measurements of Injury session.
Deriving representative head impact profiles in contact sports: a shape-based clustering approach
21st Injury Biomechanics Symposium (IBS), IIHS, Virginia
E. Koumantou, E. Y. K. Chan, C. Jones, K. Austin, M. Loosemore, M. Ghajari. Student-focused symposium hosted by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
Elena KoumantouDr Emily Yik Kwan ChanProf Mazdak GhajariPaper (PDF)
A markerless object tracking method for validation of instrumented footballs
Brain Health in Football Research Symposium 2026, Hilton at St George's Park, Burton-on-Trent
E. Koumantou, L. Low, M. Ghajari. A camera-only method for validating the kinematics measured by instrumented footballs, presented at the FA and PFA's annual brain-health research symposium — keynote by Dr Ann McKee of the Boston University CTE Center.
Not one threshold fits all: the relationship between brain injury metrics and brain strain varies across sports
Sports Engineering Seminar Day 2026, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Emily Chan, in the Biomechanics and Movement analysis session.
The protective performance of bicycle helmets and current attitudes towards them
Sports Engineering Seminar Day 2026, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Will Dawber, in the Cycling: aerodynamics and equipment session. A one-day UK sports-engineering meeting hosted by Heriot-Watt's Aerospace Engineering & Sport Science group, with keynotes from Tom Allen, John Hart and Dario Cazzola.
2025
RAIDS and Premier League TBI at the TBI-REPORTER General Assembly
Fitzpatrick Hall, Queens' College, University of Cambridge
Two lab studies among the new work introduced to the MRC TBI-REPORTER consortium at its general assembly, 17–18 September 2025: Claire Baker on RAIDS, the Road Accident In-Depth Studies, including motorcyclist helmet vulnerability across 125 verified primary impacts, and Mazdak Ghajari on Premier League TBI.
Short Communication: Effects of sex and brain anatomy on brain strain vary across different impact severities
IRCOBI 2025, Vilnius
E Chan, V Darvishi, T Parker, D Sharp, M Ghajari
Dr Emily Yik Kwan ChanProf Mazdak GhajariVahid DarvishiProceedings (PDF)
Short Communication: Biomechanical modelling of normal pressure hydrocephalus: Advancing understanding of white matter damage
IRCOBI 2025, Vilnius
V Darvishi, M Del Giovane, M David, M Kolanko, P Malhotra, D Sharp, C Carswell, M Ghajari
Short Communication: Reconstruction of 24 Real-World Motorcycle Collisions to Determine Facial Impact Conditions
IRCOBI 2025, Vilnius
L Low, C Baker, W Dawber, S Meng, M Ghajari
Dr Claire BakerDr Lucas LowProf Mazdak GhajariDr William DawberProceedings (PDF)
Short Communication: Motorcyclist facial impact prevalence from novel analysis of Road Accident In-Depth Studies data
IRCOBI 2025, Vilnius
C Baker, Z Wang, L Low, D Sharp, A Meng, M Ghajari
Dr Claire BakerDr Lucas LowProf Mazdak GhajariProceedings (PDF)
Effect of brain anatomy on brain strain varies across impact severities
20th Injury Biomechanics Symposium (IBS)
E. Y. K. Chan, M. Ghajari. Student-focused symposium of the injury biomechanics community.
Development of a novel loss of consciousness injury risk function
20th Injury Biomechanics Symposium (IBS)
Sqn Ldr Alasdair Mackay, M. Ghajari. Work with the RAF Centre of Aerospace Medicine on the head kinematics that cause loss of consciousness, and what that means for aircrew helmet standards.
2024
Best presentation
Short communication: Near Real-time Estimation of Strain in Brain Regions using XGBoost Algorithms
IRCOBI 2024, Stockholm
E Chan, C Qin, M Ghajari
Short communication: Development of Headforms for Oblique Helmet Testing
IRCOBI 2024, Stockholm
P Halldin, N Bourdet, K Boursier, G de Bruyne, M Fahlstedt, M Ghajari, O van Leeuwen, D Winter, T Huysmans
Short communication: Exploring smart device sensor potential to assess simulated vulnerable road user head injury risk
IRCOBI 2024, Stockholm
C Baker, R Li, A Montemeglio, P Martin, M Wilson, D Sharp, M Ghajari
2022
A Multibody Model of the Spine for Injury Prediction in High-Rate Vertical Loading
IRCOBI 2022, Porto
L Low, N Newell, S Masouros
2015
Short communication: Computational Analysis of White Matter Response to Rear and Lateral Impacts
IRCOBI 2015
M Ghajari, D Sharp