Lilian Garza, M.S. is a forensic human-factors scientist at Explico. Human factors is the scientific field of research dealing with the capabilities and limitations of people as they interact with systems made up of products, tools, technology, information, organizations, environments, and other people. As a scientist, she has experience analyzing how human attention, performance, perception (i.e. visual, auditory and tactile), and decision-making contribute to incidents. Her work draws on established human-factors theory—including how biases and human error—to evaluate real-world events with technical precision. She regularly examines how lighting, visibility, conspicuity, driver, pedestrian, and operator behavior and capabilities, and environmental cues influence human performance and situational awareness in transportation, occupational settings, and in slip/trips and falls.
Her background and education in cognitive systems and psychology includes extensive application of human factor principles. Across her casework, Lilian is known for translating complex human-factors science into concise, high-clarity technical writing. She approaches each case with a disciplined, evidence-driven methodology, ensuring that human capabilities, limitations, and environmental factors are accurately represented in the overall causal narrative.
