Dr. Bass has spent over 30 years developing brain, spinal, thoracic, abdominal, extremity, and other risk models applicable to humans. This work includes developing pre-clinical, computational and physical models for various traumatic conditions, then scaling or translating this research to humans. Dr. Bass is an internationally recognized expert in civilian and military biomechanics, including blunt, blast and ballistic biomechanics, with over 25 years of experience helping the U.S. and other allied militaries solve operational biomechanics problems. Dr. Bass established a high-rate biomechanics program at the University of Virginia from 1996-2008. He transitioned to Duke University in 2008 as the Director of the Injury Biomechanics Laboratory in Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. In 2023, he transitioned to Wayne State University Biomedical Engineering as Professor in the first home of injury biomechanics. He has over 150 peer-reviewed publications in injury biomechanics, statistical modeling, tissue biomechanics, and injury epidemiology.