David Poulard, PhD, is a Lead Application Engineer at Synopsys Inc, specializing in aeronautics, battery safety, and occupant safety with extensive experience in impact modeling, crashworthiness, and advanced human body models. Previous roles include Lead Application Engineer and Senior Application Engineer at Ansys, where contributions were made in solver development and consulting across various industries. As Head of the Computational Biomechanics Research Group at CEESAR, David led research projects on human body models for vehicle crash simulations and injury risk assessment. Academic credentials include a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, complemented by a foundational role as a Graduate Research Assistant at IFSTTAR. Core skills encompass biomechanics, automotive crash safety, and computational engineering.
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