Claire Baker

Dr. Claire Baker is a Researcher in Design Engineering at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London's Faculty of Engineering. She specializes in trauma biomechanics, leveraging vehicle and smart device sensors to predict time-critical injuries in road traffic collisions. Her interdisciplinary work focuses on improving emergency care responses through data-driven approaches.

Baker holds a PhD in Design Engineering from Imperial College London (2023) and a first-class master's in Physics from the University of Southampton (2017), with astrophysics research at Harvard University. Her research is funded by the EPSRC, MRC, NIHR, MoD, and ARUK through initiatives like the £10M TBI-REPORTER program, which standardizes trauma data access. She collaborates with TRL, NHS, and industry partners (e.g., Sony) to translate research into clinical and policy applications.

Her research interests include sensor-driven trauma prediction, vehicle safety engineering, and policy development (e.g., ISO standards for automatic collision notification). She pioneered the AutoTriage project, which uses in-vehicle sensors to predict traumatic brain injury severity, and is currently expanding predictive models using international datasets from Adelaide University.

• Awards: EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship
• Labs: HEAD Lab, Computational Cognitive Clinical Neuroimaging Lab
• Grants: £10M TBI-REPORTER initiative (MRC/NIHR/MoD/ARUK)
• Future Work: NHS Ambulance Service collaboration for UK implementation of real-time injury prediction systems