the apollo crew

IAIN KNIGHT

Iain Knight (CEng) Founded Apollo Vehicle Safety in 2014 and acts as the Director. He is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer with 29 years experience in vehicle safety across a diverse range of research topics, ranging from basic fundamentals such as brakes or underrun protection for trucks, up to the cutting edge of sophisticated collision avoidance systems, assisted and automated driving.

martin dodd

Martin Dodd (CEng) joined Apollo Vehicle Safety Limited in 2018 as a Principal Research Engineer. He has more than 21 years’ experience within the automotive industry. His experience includes 10 years at TRL Limited (formerly the Transport Research Laboratory) and six years at Urban Science International. He combines extensive experience of vehicle safety and vehicle testing with a range of skills in data science

Colin Grover

Colin Grover (MEng) is a Principal Engineer at Apollo Vehicle Safety Limited with more than 20 years’ experience in vehicle safety research and testing. He joined Apollo in 2023 after extensive prior experience with TRL Limited, Honda (UK), and 14 years at Thatcham Research. His specialism is vehicle active safety and Advanced Driver Assist Systems (ADAS) and the development and implementation of test and rating schemes within Euro NCAP and other market incentive schemes

Alix Edwards (PhD) is a principle engineer at Apollo Vehicle Safety with more than 20 years experience in vehicle and road safety. She joined Apollo in 2024 after postgraduate studies at Loughborough University, and extensive experience at Thatcham Research and TRL Limited. She shares a specialism in bus safety and extensive experience with Euro NCAP and Regulation with her colleagues. She also has considerable skills in data analytics and generating understanding from collision data and also brings a fresh perspective to the company around inclusive design, which has remained a career interest since her PhD considering the crash safety and comfort needs of pregnant drivers.

Apollo Vehicle Safety also works with a trusted network of suppliers to both increase capacity and complement our own skills. We are a founder member of ITEN, the International Transport Experts Network and through this network and other close associates we can access a range of other skills in the fields of human factors, ethics, environment & sustainability as well as road design, friction and other infrastructure characteristics.

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