Dr. Hana Chan is a Staff Consultant at Engineering Systems Inc. (ESi) in the Aurora, Illinois office. Dr. Chan specializes in biomechanical analysis, injury biomechanics, and automotive safety. She has research experience in human volunteer testing, motion capture systems, surface electromyography, and anthropomorphic test device testing. She also has experience in mechanical testing and soft tissue biomechanics. At ESi, Dr. Chan applies her expertise to a range of investigative scenarios, including motor vehicle accidents, injury causation, accident reconstruction, safety analyses, product and premises liability claims, and slips, trips, and falls.
Prior to joining ESi, Dr. Chan earned a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the Virginia Tech – Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences where she conducted research at the Center for Injury Biomechanics. For her dissertation research, Dr. Chan quantified the occupant responses of relaxed and braced small female and mid-size male human volunteers during low-speed frontal and frontal-oblique sled tests.
Dr. Chan has presented her research at international conferences and is published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and conference proceedings, including the SAE International Journal of Transportation Safety and International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury.
