Congratulations to the 2014 NCSRR Visiting ScholarsThe NCSRR will host its third
Visiting Scholars
Program this summer. We selected two exceptional candidates from a
large and highly competitive pool of applicants based on their
outstanding scientific potential, strong computational skills, and past
contributions in modeling and simulation.
The 2014 Scholars include James Buffi from Northwestern University and Jason Moore from Cleveland State University.
Read more about the scholars and their projects here.
We also selected several excellent applicants for Outstanding
Researcher Awards. This award recognizes their strong applications and
will fund a visit to an OpenSim workshop, for them and their
collaborators. Outstanding Researcher Award Winners include Wouter Aerts
and Hossein Mokhtarzadeh. You can see the list of Outstanding Researcher
Award Winners, along with several additional workshop travel award
winners on the
Visiting Scholars website.
Tune in to the Next OpenSim Webinar
Simulating Quadriceps Muscle Atrophy and Activation Deficits during Gait
Dr. Julie Thompson, Stanford University
and Ohio State University
Thursday, May 22, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time
Read more and register
Scholar in Belgium Makes an Impact with OpenSim
Wouter
Aerts, a student working with Ilse Jonkers at KU Leuven and winner of
an NCSRR Outstanding Researcher Award, received a personal PhD grant to
simulate transtibial amputee gait within Opensim. Wouter will work on
including a contact model between the stump and prosthesis and use these
forces during the simulation in order to assist in prosthetic fitting
and tuning of transtibial amputees. You can check out his
video in the
OpenSim Gallery of Examples.