Faculty

Marina Mourtzakis

Professor; Associate Dean, Research

Specialization: Physiology and nutrition

Teaching, expertise, tools and technologies: Expertise - skeletal muscle health, body composition, muscle quality in metabolic conditions, nutrition, exercise, muscle metabolism, dietary protein. Tools and technologies - movement assessment and exercise prescription, integrative energy metabolism in health and disease,ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA), bioelectrical impedance analysis(BIA), high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

Laura Middleton

Associate Professor

Specialization: Neuroscience

Teaching, expertise, tools and technologies: Physical activity and aging, dementia, prevention of dementia, social inclusion of dementia, motor disorders, physical activity tracking and assessment, neurocognitive assessment, electroencephalography

Bill McIlroy

Professor

Specialization: Neuroscience

Teaching, expertise, tools and technologies: Content expertise - neuroscience, balance and gait, exercise, neurologic disorders, aging.

Experimental tools / technologies - electroencephalography, electromyography, transcranial magnetic stimulation, magnetic resonance imaging, peripheral nerve stimulation, galvanic skin measurement, eye-tracker, motion analysis, kinetic measurement, wearable sensor technology.

Ewa Niechwiej-Szwedo

Associate Professor

Specialization: Neuroscience

Teaching, expertise, tools and technologies: Teaching - visuomotor control: eye movements, hand-eye coordination, binocular vision: depth perception, stereopsis, visual and motor development, motor learning.

Tools and technologies - eye tracking, limb tracking, psychophysics.

Andrew Laing

Associate Professor

Specialization: Biomechanics

Teaching, expertise, tools and technologies: musculoskeletal biomechanics related to injury, impact biomechanics,  balance, falls, and mobility, occupational biomechanics, ergonomics.

Specialization: Biomechanics

Teaching, expertise, tools and technologies: Shoulder biomechanics, digital human modeling, ergonomics, motion capture, upper limb biomechanics, computational musculoskeletal modeling, in vitro analysis.

Specialization: Biomechanics

Teaching, expertise, tools and technologies: Content - biomechanics, ergonomics, injury mechanics, exercise, instrumentation, biomechanical modeling.

Tools / techniques - electromyography, medical imaging, mechanical tissue testing, motion analysis, kinetic measurement, wearable sensor technology, occupational ergonomic evaluation.