Professor David Lloyd

Presentation: The Digital Athlete

Professor David Lloyd, Director, Griffith Centre of Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering (GCORE).

David is a Biomechanical Engineer in the School of Allied Health Sciences, Griffith University, Australia. He worked in the aeronautical industry before completing a PhD in Biomechanical Engineering, then receiving a prestigious NIH Fogarty International Post-doctoral fellowship in computational biomechanics and neurophysiology at the premier Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and Northwestern Medical School (USA). With more than 30 years experience in biomechanics research, David has recently co-founded both the Griffith Centre for Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering (GCORE) and Griffith’s Advanced Design and Prototyping Technologies Institute (ADaPT), and now leads GCORE and ADaPT Medical.

David is a Fellow of the International Society of Biomechanics, recipient of the 2020 Geoffrey Dyson Award by the International Society of Biomechanics in Sport, ranked the 2019 Field Leader in Biophysics in Australia, and led Griffith University to be the Australian 2020 Lead Institution in Biophysics. David and team have developed computer simulation and AI methods to study the causes, prevention, and management of various neuromusculoskeletal conditions. These methods and technologies are now being adopted worldwide in laboratories, orthopaedic and neurorehabilitation industries. David and team are currently developing accurate personalised digital twins of humans and devices that operate in real-time by combining data from laboratory-based instrumentation, multimodal medical imaging and wireless wearable devices.