Dr Daina Sturnieks
RESEARCHER PROFILE
Senior Research Officer
Conjoint Lecturer, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW
+612 9399 1062
Dr Sturnieks has a PhD in human biomechanics (UWA). She is Laboratory Manager in the Falls and Balance Research Group at NeuRA where she helped to establish the Human Movement and Gait Analysis Laboratory. Dr Sturnieks brings an experimental approach and biomechanical expertise to address complex problems of disorders that affect human movement. Her projects investigate sensorimotor contributions to disturbances of balance, gait, voluntary and protective stepping, and interventions to improve balance and reduce falls in older people and clinical populations.
RESEARCH TEAM
VICKY SMITH Executive Assistant
PAULO PELICIONI PhD student
JESSICA TURNER Research Assistant
JOANNE LO Research Assistant
CAMERON HICKS Research Assistant
DR ESTHER VANCE Senior Research Assistant
DANIELA MEINRATH Masters student
DR YOSHIRO OKUBO
JOANA CAETANO PhD student
MAYNA RATANAPONGLEKA Research Assistant
PROF CATHIE SHERRINGTON Senior research officer
