Laboratoire de Biomécanique et Mécanique des Chocs Université Lyon 1 – IFSTTAR Département de Mécanique, Batiment Oméga 41 Bd André Latarjet Domaine Scientifique de la Doua 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France Tel : + 33 4 72 44 80 93 | +33 4 78 65 69 00 www.ifsttar.fr Bertrand Fréchède has been an active researcher in the field of biomechanics since 2003. His research work has been focused on the numerical modelling of the human musculo-skeletal system in dynamic conditions. Through this process, he has endeavoured to acquire a thorough understanding of the head and spine behaviours and of their possible mechanisms of injury and pathomechanisms. He has been in particular aiming at (i) establishing relationships between global injury risk/global behaviour and local injury mechanisms/local behaviour, and (ii) linking the models to the real-life, e.g. by implementing subject-specific modelling approaches and accounting for in-vivo task-related active muscle contributions to the spinal loads.