Leia Stirling

Visiting Associate Professor

Contact

Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
33-309
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139

leia [at] mit.edu

Website

Administrative Assistant

Beata Shuster

(617) 253-4926

bshuster [at] mit.edu

Financial Officer

Suxin Hu

(617) 253-0492

suxin [at] mit.edu

Website: http://stirling.mit.edu

Academic Degrees

BS 2003 University of Illinois Urbana -Champaign
MS 2005 University of Illinois Urbana -Champaign
PhD 2008 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Society Memberships

AIAA, American Society of Biomechanics, Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society, IEEE

Positions Held at MIT

Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School 2008-2009 (post-doc); Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University 2009-2013 (Advanced Technology Team; Director Motion Capture Lab)

Positions Held outside MIT

Boston Children's Hospital 2008-2009 (post-doc); Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University 2009-2013 (Senior Staff Engineer)

Specialization and Research Interests

computational dynamics, system automation, human factors, experimental biomechanics, human-machine interaction for aerospace and medical applications

Teaching Interests

human systems, experimental methods

Lab/Research Group Affiliation

Human Systems Laboratory