Professor Ian Loram

My profile

Biography

Academic and professional qualifications

  • Optimisation of human performance
  • Sensorimotor control
  • Neuromotor control of posture and movement
  • Real time ultrasonography and electromyography of muscle contraction
  • Intermittent and continuous paradigms of motor control
  • Fear of falling, stress and human performance
  • Muscle coordination and synergies

Other academic service (administration and management)

  • Academic Director of IRM
  • Academic Lead of Biomechanics and Motor Control Research Group, Healthcare Science Research Institute.
  • EPSRC Grants EP/F068514/1, EP/F069022/1 and EP/F06974X/1 “Intermittent control of man and machine”.

Prizes and awards

  • Awarded PhD, School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham, July 2003
  • Awarded Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, 2004-2005, from The Leverhulme Trust

Other distinctions

  • Appointed Reader in Neuromuscular Control of Human Movement, Institute for Biomedical Research into Human Movement and Health (IRM), Manchester Metropolitan University, 2006 - 2012
  • Appointed Professor in Neuromuscular Control of Human Movement, Institute for Biomedical Research into Human Movement and Health (IRM), Manchester Metropolitan University, 2012 - present

Personal website address

http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dIVchq8AAAAJ

Research outputs

  • Intermittent and continuous control paradigms
  • Visual manual tracking
  • Central and reflex mechanisms of postural control
  • Postural control
  • Postural set
  • Coordination and control synergies
  • Fear of falling, stress and human performance
  • Balance and locomotion
  • Muscle proprioception
  • Muscle tendon interactions
  • Passive and active muscle properties
  • Real-time ultrasonography of muscle contraction
  • Diagnosis and neuro-rehabilitation
  • Myoelectric control