Dagmar Sternad PhD

Dagmar Sternad received a BS in Movement Science and Linguistics from the Technical University of Munich and a PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Connecticut. From 1995 until 2008, she was an Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor at the Pennsylvania State University in Kinesiology and Integrative Biosciences. At Northeastern, she holds an interdisciplinary appointment in the departments of Biology and Electrical and Computer Engineering with affiliated appointments in Bioengineering and Physics. Her research in computational neuroscience and motor control focuses on learning and control of sensorimotor coordination in humans, both in healthy and neurologically impaired individuals. This work spans behavioral experiments with mathematical models of control and nonlinear dynamics, bridging biology with engineering and physics. The results are documented in over 80 publications in scientific journals and several books. The research has been continuously supported by grants from the National Institute of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Office of Naval Research.