College contact person: prof. Giuseppe Vannozzi; Tutor: prof. Valentina Camomile , Prof. Andrea Macaluso

Advanced methodologies and protocols for human motion analysis, using optoelectronic systems or wearable inertial devices, to provide an accurate description of human motion and the mechanisms underlying motor activity under physiological or pathological conditions, during activities of daily living, work, and in sports.

Motion capture. Algorithms and models for high-resolution motion analysis. Monitoring systems for health and well-being. Models of the skeletal-muscular system of the human body in motion for the assessment of motor function.

Gait analysis and motor skill assessment in special populations. Assessment of motor competence in typically developing children and motor disorders. Sports biomechanics for performance analysis and injury prevention. Ergonomics.

Motor control and neuromuscular adaptations to exercise in special populations (elderly, orthopedic and neurological patients). Neuromechanics applied to sports and rehabilitation. Postural adjustments in healthy and pathological subjects. Kinematics, dynamics and metabolic cost of human locomotion.

Integrated neurophysiological approaches for the assessment of motor and cognitive interference in human walking.

Methods: stereophotogrammetry, dynamometry, electromyography, wearable inertial sensors, calorimetry, neuromuscular electrical stimulation, functional near-infrared spectroscopy.