Dr Sjaan Koppel holds a PhD in Psychophysiology and is an Associate Professor at the Monash University Accident Research Centre (MUARC).

Within this role, Sjaan is responsible for conducting research projects that improve the safe mobility for vulnerable road users including: older road users, drivers with medical conditions and/or functional impairments, and child road users.

In a 2021 review - that analysed 50 years (and over 25,000 pieces) of road safety literature, Sjaan was recognised as the world's leading author on research related to “Old, child & vulnerable road users, driver clinical/mental condition, fatigue & sleepiness”. 

Within her research, Sjaan uses many behavioural safety techniques including: questionnaires, neuropsychological assessments, interactive driving simulations, on-road driving assessments and naturalistic driving study [NDS] methodologies.

Sjaan is also collaborating with the mindfulness experts at Monash University and is leading a research program to explore the potential for mindfulness training to improve road safety behaviours across drivers, cyclists and pedestrians.

Sjaan is on the Board of Directors for the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM), is an Associate Editor for the Traffic Injury Prevention (TIP) journal, is on the Scientific Program Committee for the TÜV SÜD Conference ‘Protection of Children in Cars' and is an invited member of Safe Kids Worldwide's 'Children in Automated Vehicles' Consortium.