Jason Forman, PhD is a Principal Scientist at the Center for Applied Biomechanics at the University of Virginia (UVA) and an Associate Fellow at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He has over 11 years of experience in injury biomechanics research, spanning topics from dummy and injury risk function development to the micro-mechanical behavior of biological tissues. After completing his graduate work at the UVA Center for Applied Biomechanics, Dr. Forman served for two years as the Deputy Director for Science at the European Center for Injury Prevention (Pamplona, Spain).

Upon returning to UVA, Dr. Forman continued in experimental biomechanics research, with a focus on the development of and biofidelity evaluation of anthropomorphic test devices; the execution of full-scale impact biomechanics experiments with dummies and other models in simulated automobile collision environments; the development of injury risk functions for use with dummies and computational models; field data analysis for injury risk factor evaluation; and investigating the effects of factors such as aging and obesity on injury risk.