Assoc. Prof. Ludek Hyncik, Ph.D. was graduated from the University of West Bohemia in 1998, got his PhD in 2002 and concluded his habilitation in 2014. His expertise is in impact biomechanics, mechanics of discrete systems, finite element method and particles methods.

He focuses on virtual human body models for injury prediction. He assembled a team of students and researchers and later founded the Department of human body modelling and monitoring at the New Technologies - Research Centre of the University of West Bohemia. He investigated many national and international projects in cooperation with public institutions and industry. As the associate professor at the Faculty of Applied Sciences of the University of West Bohemia, he is in close touch with domestic and foreign students delivering his expertise within the subjects and bachelor, master and PhD theses.

Since 2019 he is the visiting professor at the Tianjin University of Science and Technology in China. He is the FISITA Education Advisor, the member of the Technical Committee for Biomechanical Engineering of IFToMM, the chair of the advisory board of Techmania Science Center, vice president of the Czech Automotive Society, vice president of the Czech Society of Biomechanics and member of SAE.