Magnus Gens

Magnus Gens is a Swedish engineer known for his development of a moose crash test dummy in his 2001 master's thesis.

In 2022, the thesis earned him the Ig Nobel Prize for safety engineering, which honors unusual but important research.

In 1994, Gens began working on his master's thesis for the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm which involved the creation of a crash test dummy to emulate an automobile collision with a moose in order to improve safety in vehicles.

[5][6] In 2001, Gens published his master's thesis, Moose Crash Test Dummy, with the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute.

[12] In 2008, the television show MythBusters obtained Gens's permission to use a modified version of his model in testing a moose auto collision theory in the episode "Alaska Special".