Academic Credentials
  • Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Wake Forest University, 2026
  • B.S., Physics, Davidson College, 2021
Additional Education & Training
  • Mentorship Training and Diversity Workshop - WF Office of Postdoctoral Education 2024
  • LS-DYNA Finite Element Analysis and Simulation Training - WF Center for Injury Biomechanics 2022
Professional Honors
  • 2nd Place 3MT Competition, Wake Forest School of Medicine, 2026
  • Alumni Student Travel Grant, Wake Forest School of Medicine, 2024
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2023-2026
  • Tavel Grant, Internation Resource Council on Biomechanics of Injury, 2022
  • National GEM Consortium Employer Fellow 2021
  • Outstanding Service Award, Society of Physics Students, 2021
Professional Affiliations
  • Biomedical Engineering Society

Dr. Andrea Robinson specializes in injury biomechanics and computational modeling, with expertise in the evaluation of biomechanical response in impact events such as motor vehicle collisions. Her work combines engineering analysis, human body modeling, and evaluation of medical imaging to understand how characteristics like anthropometry influence injury potential. At Exponent, she investigates injury causation and biomechanical factors associated with vehicle crashes, slips, trips, falls, and other incidents involving human injury.

Dr. Robinson's technical expertise includes finite element analysis, medical image processing, large-scale data analytics, and high-performance computing. She has developed automated workflows for extracting quantitative anatomical measurements from medical images and for analyzing large population datasets. Her experience includes computational simulation using LS-DYNA, development of image-analysis tools in MATLAB and Python, and statistical evaluation of anatomical variability.

Prior to joining Exponent, Dr. Robinson was a Graduate Research Assistant in the Center for Injury Biomechanics at Wake Forest University. Her doctoral research examined the relationship between rib cage morphology and thoracic injury risk. She developed subject-specific thorax models from computed tomography imaging and evaluated injury outcomes in motor vehicle collisions across large virtual populations.