ISBS2011

Scott Selbie
Queen’s University (Canada), and the University of Massachusetts (USA).
Has been the President and Director of Research at HAS-Motion (an R&D affiliate of C-Motion) since 2008. He is currently an adjunct Professor at Queen’s University (Canada), and the University of Massachusetts (USA).  He got his PhD in Biomechanics from Simon Fraser University (1990), he received post doctoral training at the University of Geneva, the University of Leuven, and Queen’s University. He was a staff scientist at the U.S. National Institutes of Health where he focused on biomechanical modeling of the human larynx, and three dimensional reconstructions of biological structures from various medical imaging modalities, and was an inventor on 3 US Patents.  He is the former Director of Biomedical Visualization for Medical Consumer Media (MCM) where he developed an immersive virtual environment for Oncologists. Scott was Director of Research at C-Motion from 1998-2008, and has directed the evolution of C-Motion’s Visual3D software since the original technology transfer from the National Institutes of Health. Scott has been the Principal Investigator on all but one of C-Motion’s NIH grants and contracts.

Wangdo Kim
Biomechanics Laboratory, Faculty of Human Kinetics, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal.
His original training was in mechanical engineering; he has a BSc from Seoul National University and a PhD from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA. His research interests focus on: multi-scale simulation techniques from organ to cells; imaging of tissue deformations; mechanobiological adaptation; virtual physiology of the healthy and pathological musculoskeletal system; or computational modeling and evaluation through movement measurements. Currently, He is conducting multiscale cell to tissue biomechanical and regeneration research to create a computational model replicating gross pericellular biomaterials stress-strains based on cell-level biomechanical boundary conditions. Outcomes for this research will establish a computational way of thinking for understanding the complexity of multiscale biomechanical environments.

Tom Kepple
Currently the Chief Science Officer at C-Motion. Inc. Tom began developing innovative biomechanics software solutions over 25 years ago as at the Biomechanics Lab within the United States’ National Institutes of Health (NIH). During his time at NIH Tom wrote the Move3d software which was awarded as a Regional Winner in the 1992 Johns Hopkins University National Search for Computing to Assist Persons with Disabilities. In 1997 Move3d software was transferred to C-Motion Inc. as part of an NIH Technology Transfer grant. Today Visual3d has grown to be the industry leader in application software for human movement research.  After leaving NIH Tom spend two and half years as Researcher/Instructor at the University of Delaware where in addition to teaching graduate courses in Biomechanics, he developed computer simulation software for United States Figure Skating Association. In August 2010 Tom returned to his roots to work at C-Motion. Inc. and is currently involved in developing new analytical techniques for incorporation into Visual3d and future C-Motion software.

Dr. M.F. (Maarten) Bobbert
Faculty of Human Movement Sciences of the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Maarten F. Bobbert obtained in 1983 a M.Sc. degree in Functional Anatomy as well as a M.Sc. degree in Exercise Physiology from the Faculty of Human Movement Sciences of the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. At this faculty, he also conducted his Ph.D. work on muscle functioning and coordination in vertical jumping, which was finalized in 1988. After a two-year post-doc appointment at the Human Performance Laboratory of the University of Calgary, Canada, Maarten returned to Amsterdam to be appointed as staff member. His current teaching includes courses on neurosciences and neuro-musculo-skeletal modelling. Among his research interests are the design of the musculo-skeletal system and the organization of control in the central nervous system. He is editorial consultant of the Journal of Biomechanics, and editorial board member of Human Movement Science, Clinical Biomechanics, and the European Journal of Applied Physiology.

Walter Herzog, University of Calgary, Canada
Co-Director of the Human Performance Laboratory
Professor of the Faculties of Kinesiology, Engineering, and Medicine
Associate Dean Research of the Faculty of Kinesiology
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery
Dr. Walter Herzog received his undergraduate degree from the ETH in Zurich, and his doctoral degree in Biomechanics from the University of Iowa.
Following his postdoctoral training in Neuroscience, he accepted an assistant professorship at the University of Calgary, where he is currently a full professor in the Faculties of Kinesiology, Engineering, and Medicine. He is co-director of the Human Performance Lab, a National Killam Fellow, and a Canada Research Chair in Molecular and Cellular Biomechanics. His primary research interests are in musculoskeletal biomechanics, with focus on molecular mechanisms of muscular contraction, cartilage and joint biomechanics, and clinical and sports applications.