Laboratory activities are directed by Dr. James Ashton-Miller, Senior Research Scientist, an internationally-recognized authority on the biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system.

James A. Ashton-Miller

Research Professor
MS: MIT, 1974; Ph.D: University of Oslo, 1982
phone: (734) 763-2320
fax: (734) 769-1145

e-mail: jaam@umich.edu

Research Professor and Distinguished Research Scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Distinguished Senior Research Scientist, Biomedical Engineering; Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Gerontology; Director, Biomechanics Research Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Enginering
Biomechanics including mobility impairments in the elderly; trips, slips, and falls; elderly decision-making and risk-taking in physical tasks; birth related injury; female stress urinary incontinence; spine biomechanics; athletic injuries; occupant vehicular safety.

Arthur Kuo

Associate Professor
MS: Stanford, 1989; Ph.D.: Stanford, 1993
phone: (734) 647-2505
fax: (734) 763-9332
e-mail: artkuo@umich.edu

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering Department; Faculty Associate, Institute of Gerontology
Dynamics and control of human movement; multi-body dynamics; sensorimotor control models of human balance; automatic generation of dynamical equations of motion; passive dynamic walking; age-related changes in balance control.