Matthias Jager

Matthias Jager, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo) at Dortmund University of Technology (Germany), studied Electrical Engineering at the Ruhr-University of Bochum (Germany) and moved as a research associate in 1981 to the Ergonomics Department of IfADo. He received his doctoral degree from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Dortmund in 1986 and his habilitation degree with the venia legendi for ergonomics in 2001. He lectured, among...See more

Matthias Jager, Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors (IfADo) at Dortmund University of Technology (Germany), studied Electrical Engineering at the Ruhr-University of Bochum (Germany) and moved as a research associate in 1981 to the Ergonomics Department of IfADo. He received his doctoral degree from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Dortmund in 1986 and his habilitation degree with the venia legendi for ergonomics in 2001. He lectured, among others, at the University of Dortmund and the ETH Zurich. At IfADo, he initiated the Dortmund Lumbar Load Study Group in 1995 and became the head of the project group Biomechanics in 2004. A particular interest concerns the dissemination of knowledge via standards (ISO, CEN, DIN), guidelines (WHO, DGAUM Occupational Medicine, GfA Work Science) and as the editor-in-chief of a peer-reviewed journal (Zentralblatt Arbeitsmedizin). See less