Our team

Dr Rob Anderson

Director and Principal

PhD

Since 2009, Rob has provided consultancy services in accident reconstruction and injury biomechanics for insurers, claimants and their legal representatives throughout Australia, the United States and the Asia Pacific region. His advice covers matters arising from fatal, catastrophic, moderate and minor injury accidents.

Rob joined Anderson Hall, then Hall Technical, in 2014 after a 21-year career in full-time research at the University of Adelaide. He began his research career in 1993 at the Road Accident Research Unit (RARU), investigating crashes for a study on airbag effectiveness.

In 1999, he completed his PhD on the biomechanics of impact-induced diffuse axonal injury, earning the Elizabeth Penfold Simpson Prize for Brain Injury Research. He was appointed Deputy Director at RARU in 1999 and subsequently at the Centre for Automotive Safety Research.

Rob oversaw the development of a vehicle pedestrian-safety test facility for the Australasian New Car Assessment Program. He developed expertise in pedestrian kinematics and injury biomechanics and chaired an international committee on computer simulation of pedestrian crash mechanics.

He served on the Injury Biomechanics Panel of Engineers Australia and national committees developing best-practice guidelines for child restraints. He also developed and taught a final-year engineering course on vehicle safety and crash mechanics at the University of Adelaide.

Rob has published more than 150 journal articles, conference papers and government reports on crashes, injury mechanisms and prevention, road safety and vehicle safety.

Dr Jeffrey Dutschke

Accident Analyst

BE (Hons), BSc (Maths and Comp Sc), PhD

Jeff joined Anderson Hall as an Accident Analyst in 2019. His work includes collision reconstruction, biomechanical analyses and modelling.

After completing his undergraduate degrees in 2005, Jeff completed a PhD at the Centre for Automotive Safety Research examining methods used to measure head injury risk.

Before joining Anderson Hall, Jeff attended active crash scenes as part of the Centre’s in-depth crash investigation team. His research covered cycling safety, injury risk associated with travel speed and speed limits, large dataset analysis, and brain and spine biomechanics.

In 2013 and 2014, Jeff worked at a technology startup in Canada, with responsibilities including customer support and product design.

Ingrid Cother

Business Manager

B Nurs., Grad. Dip. MHN

Ingrid provides technical and administrative assistance. Her qualifications and background are in nursing and mental health.

Chris Hall

Founding Partner

BE (Hons)

Chris graduated from the University of Adelaide with an Honours degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1974. From 1975 to 1978, he undertook postgraduate studies while working as a Junior Research Fellow with the Road Accident Research Unit.

At RARU, Chris worked with Ray McHenry’s original SMAC (Simulation Model of Automobile Collisions), developed at CALSPAN. He also carried out early work comparing motorcycle braking deceleration under rear-wheel braking and combined front- and rear-wheel braking.

Chris moved to the University of Queensland in 1979, researching the effects of concentrated light on photovoltaic cells and tutoring in mechanical design. He remained active in alternative energy research and development until 1988.

He began consulting on motor vehicle accidents at Amdel in 1981, where he headed destructive and non-destructive testing laboratories. He established Hall Technical Services in 1985 and has consulted on a wide range of vehicle accidents and component failures.

Chris has contributed to motor-racing circuit design and advised the Formula 1 event at Albert Park on safety between 2002 and 2009. He has lectured at universities in the United States on accident reconstruction and motorcycle dynamics, reviewed papers for the Society of Automotive Engineers International World Congress, and served on the Standards Australia committee for protective helmets for vehicle users.