Claudia Mazzà is a professor of

biomechanics Biomechanics is the study of the structure, function and motion of the mechanical aspects of biological systems, at any level from whole organisms to Organ (anatomy), organs, Cell (biology), cells and cell organelles, using the methods of mechani ...

at the Department of

Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines and mechanism (engineering), mechanisms that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and engineering mathematics, mathematics principl ...

at the

University of Sheffield The University of Sheffield (informally Sheffield University or TUOS) is a public university, public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Its history traces back to the foundation of Sheffield Medical School in 1828, Fir ...

. Her research centres on

of human movement. She is the director of the

EPSRC The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is a British Research Council that provides government funding for grants to undertake research and postgraduate degrees in engineering and the physical sciences, mainly to univers ...

funded MultiSim project and a leading scientist in the Mobilise-D research project.

Education and career

Mazzà studied biomechanics at the University of Bologna where she completed her PhD in 2004. She then continued her research at the Department of Human Movement Sciences at the Foro Italico University of Rome where she was appointed assistant professor in 2006. She became a reader in Sheffield in 2013 and was promoted to professor in 2019.

Research

Mazzà's research encompasses a range of topics including biomechanics,

gait analysis Gait analysis is the systematic study of animal locomotion, more specifically the study of human motion, using the eye and the brain of observers, augmented by instrumentation for measuring body movements, biomechanics, body mechanics, and the a ...

, techniques for human movement analysis and

musculoskeletal The human musculoskeletal system (also known as the human locomotor system, and previously the activity system) is an organ system that gives humans the ability to move using their muscular and skeletal systems. The musculoskeletal system provid ...

modelling. This includes work on the influence of certain illnesses such as

Parkinson's disease Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a neurodegenerative disease primarily of the central nervous system, affecting both motor system, motor and non-motor systems. Symptoms typically develop gradually and non-motor issues become ...

on the posture and motion of patients.

Awards and honours

* Life Sciences Award –

Suffrage Science awards The Suffrage Science award is a prize for women in science, engineering and computing founded in 2011, on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day by the MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS). There are three categories of awar ...

2020

References

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