Dr Claudia Mazzà

Lecturer

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
UK

Telephone: +44 (0) 114 222 6073
Fax: +44 (0) 114 222 7890

Email: c.mazza@sheffield.ac.uk

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Profile

Claudia received her PhD in Bioengineering in 2004 from the University of Bologna. She carried out her PhD and post-doc related research activities at the Department of Human Movement Sciences at the University of Rome "Foro Italico", where she was appointed as Assistant Professor from Jan 2006 to Jan 2013. She joined the University of Sheffield as a lecturer in Feb 2013.

Claudia's research has always been focused on human movement analysis and on the definition of quantative methods for the clinical assessment of an individual locomotor and postural ability. Her most recent work concerns the use of wearable inertial sensors and the mechanisms that rule upper body movements during walking.

Research Interests:

• Biomechanics
• Gait analysis
• Gait and postural control
• Technologies for human movement analysis
• Musculoskeletal modelling

Selected Publications:

• Estimate of lower trunk angles in pathological gaits using gyroscope data,
  Grimampi, E., Bonnet, V., Taviani, A. & Mazzà, C. (2013),
  Gait & Posture, In press.


• Real-time estimate of lower limb joint kinematics during a squat task using one single inertial measurement unit,
  Bonnet, V., Mazzà, C., Fraisse, P. & Cappozzo, A (2013),
  IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, In press.


• An enhanced estimate of heel strike and toe off instants of time using lower trunk inertial sensor data,
  McCamley, J., Donati, M., Grimpampi, E. & Mazzà, C. (2012),
  Gait and Posture, 36(316-8).


• A least-squares identification algorithm for estimating squat exercise mechanics using a single inertial measurement unit,
  Bonnet, V., Mazzà, C., Fraisse, P. & Cappozzo, A. (2012),
  Journal of Biomechanics, 45(1472-7).


• An optimized Kalman filter for the estimate of trunk angles from inertial sensors data while walking,
  Mazzà, C., Donati, M., McCamley, J., Picerno, P. & Cappozzo, A. (2012),
  Gait and Posture, 35(138–142).


• Head stabilization in children of both genders during level walking,
  Mazzà C., Zok M. & Cappozzo A. (2010),
  Gait and Posture, 31(429-32).


• Gender differences in the control of the upper body accelerations during level walking,
  Mazzà, C., Iosa, M., Picerno, P. & Cappozzo, A. (2009),
  Gait and Posture, 29(300-3).


• Control of the upper body accelerations in young and elderly women during level walking,
  Mazzà, C., Iosa, M., Pecoraro, F. & Cappozzo, A. (2008),
  Journal of Neuroengineering and Rehabilitation, 5(30).


• Should the instructions issued to the subject in traditional static posturography be standardised?,
  Zok, M., Mazzà, C. & Cappozzo, A. (2008),
  Medical Engineering and Physics, 30(913-6).


• Mobility assessment of patients with facioscapulohumeral dystrophy,
  Iosa, M., Mazzà, C., Frusciante, R., Zok, M., Aprile, I., Ricci, E. & Cappozzo A. (2007),
  Clinical Biomechanics, 22(1074-82).


• Biomechanic modeling of sit-to-stand to upright posture for mobility assessment of persons with chronic stroke,
  Mazzà, C., Stanhope, S., Taviani, A. & Cappozzo, A. (2006),
  Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 87(635-41).


• Sequencing sit-to-stand and upright posture for mobility assessment: determination of the timing of the task phases from force platform data,
  Mazzà, C., Zok, M. & Della Croce, U. (2005),
  Gait and Posture, 21(425-31).


• Association between subject functional status, seat height and movement strategy in sit-to-stand performance,
  Mazzà, C., Benvenuti, F., Bimbi, C. & Stanhope, S. (2004),
  Journal of American Geriatric Society, 52(1750-4).


• An optimisation algorithm for human joint angle time-history generation using external force data,
  Mazzà, C. & Cappozzo, A. (2004), 
  Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 32(764-72).