Computational Biomechanics

Lizeth completed her PhD focused on validating technologies to assess motor dysfunction in children with cerebral palsy at the Rehabilitation Medicine Department of the VU University Amsterdam in 2016. Working together with patients and clinicians, she found her passion in applying movement analysis for rehabilitative purposes and worked on the application of dynamometry and an interactive gait lab to quantify neuromuscular impairments. Eager to go from identifying problems to restoring mobility in patients, Lizeth worked for three years with Prof. Walsh at Harvard University to investigate the rehab potential of soft exosuits to enhance ambulation in post-stroke patients. Arriving at Heidelberg University in 2019, she shifted her focus to studying the decline in motion and balance of the elderly across different daily movements. Lizeth received the Promising Scientist Award from the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB) in 2021. Her research has been awarded three best paper awards (ESMAC, 2014; ICRA 218; ESMAC 2020). She has been awarded a collaborative grant (HEIKA, 2020), a postdoctoral fellowship (Ter Meulen, 2016) and is admitted with a grant to the Elite Postdoc Program by the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Research Interests

Publications

  1. Giorgos Marinou, Lizeth Sloot and Katja D. Mombaur
    Towards efficient lower-limb exoskeleton evaluation: defining biomechanical metrics to quantify assisted gait familiarization
    9th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2022, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, August 21-24, 2022, 1–8, IEEE, 2022
    @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/biorob/MarinouSM22,
      author = {Marinou, Giorgos and Sloot, Lizeth and Mombaur, Katja D.},
      title = {Towards efficient lower-limb exoskeleton evaluation: defining biomechanical
                        metrics to quantify assisted gait familiarization},
      journal = {9th {IEEE} {RAS/EMBS} International Conference for Biomedical Robotics
                        and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2022, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, August
                        21-24, 2022},
      pages = {1--8},
      publisher = {{IEEE}},
      year = {2022},
      url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/BioRob52689.2022.9925360}
      doi = {10.1109/BIOROB52689.2022.9925360},
    }
    
  2. Francesco Missiroli, Nicola Lotti, Michele Xiloyannis, Lizeth Sloot, Robert Riener and Lorenzo Masia
    Relationship Between Muscular Activity and Assistance Magnitude for a Myoelectric Model Based Controlled Exosuit
    Frontiers Robotics AI, 7, 595844, 2020
    @article{DBLP:journals/firai/MissiroliLXSRM20,
      author = {Missiroli, Francesco and Lotti, Nicola and Xiloyannis, Michele and Sloot, Lizeth and Riener, Robert and Masia, Lorenzo},
      title = {Relationship Between Muscular Activity and Assistance Magnitude for
                        a Myoelectric Model Based Controlled Exosuit},
      journal = {Frontiers Robotics {AI}},
      volume = {7},
      pages = {595844},
      year = {2020},
      url = {https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2020.595844}
      doi = {10.3389/FROBT.2020.595844},
    }
    
  3. Jaehyun Bae, Christopher Siviy, Michael Rouleau, Nicolas Menard, Kathleen O’Donnell, Ignacio Galiana, Maria Athanassiu, Danielle Ryan, Christine Bibeau, Lizeth Sloot, Pawel Kudzia, Terry Ellis, Louis Awad and Conor J. Walsh
    A Lightweight and Efficient Portable Soft Exosuit for Paretic Ankle Assistance in Walking After Stroke
    2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2018, Brisbane, Australia, May 21-25, 2018, 2820–2827, IEEE, 2018
    @inproceedings{DBLP:conf/icra/BaeSRMOGARBSKEA18,
      author = {Bae, Jaehyun and Siviy, Christopher and Rouleau, Michael and Menard, Nicolas and O'Donnell, Kathleen and Galiana, Ignacio and Athanassiu, Maria and Ryan, Danielle and Bibeau, Christine and Sloot, Lizeth and Kudzia, Pawel and Ellis, Terry and Awad, Louis and Walsh, Conor J.},
      title = {A Lightweight and Efficient Portable Soft Exosuit for Paretic Ankle
                        Assistance in Walking After Stroke},
      journal = {2018 {IEEE} International Conference on Robotics and Automation, {ICRA}
                        2018, Brisbane, Australia, May 21-25, 2018},
      pages = {2820--2827},
      publisher = {{IEEE}},
      year = {2018},
      url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2018.8461046}
      doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2018.8461046},
    }
    

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