Ms. Watts is a Senior Scientist at Explico with an expertise in the investigation and reconstruction of complex accidents, particularly those involving traumatic injuries. She provides technical consulting services across a broad spectrum of cases and routinely leads multidisciplinary teams through technically complex investigations. Her work requires extensive understanding of the technical scientific literature, advanced skills in physics-based simulation and modeling, and the ability to synthesize complex engineering findings into clear, trial-ready demonstratives. She has substantial field experience documenting and preserving scene evidence for a wide range of incidents, including multi-vehicle collisions, vehicle-pedestrian impacts, workplace injuries, commercial vehicle crashes, and railroad-related events.
As an experienced accident reconstructionist and injury biomechanist, Ms. Watts applies widely-accepted scientific analysis techniques and experimental methods to address challenging forensic questions. At Explico, she routinely designs and executes case-specific physical experiments to quantify forces and accelerations at play during various events. Her academic research at Wayne State University combines high-speed video capture and tracking, revolutionary tissue perfusion techniques, macroscopic and cellular level soft tissue injury classification, and precision high-g acceleration measurements to quantify the forces and tissue response during ballistic impact events.
Ms. Watts earned her undergraduate degree in Biomedical Engineering from Lawrence Technological University, where she also served as captain of the varsity women’s golf team. She holds a master’s degree in Injury Biomechanics from Wayne State University, and is in the process of completing her PhD in Biomedical Engineering.
