Citlali Lopez-ortiz
Assistant Professor
Kinesiology and Community Health
University of Illinois at urbana champaign
United States of America
Biography
She has done her Ph.D., Kinesiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Biomechanics, 2001 M.A., Dance Biomechanics, State University of New York at Brockport, 1994.
Research Interest
Dr. Lopez-Ortiz's research focuses on how the human brain generates dexterity in motor coordination using the language of dance movement to inform the design of dance/movement training protocols in health, disease, and disability through the life span. Her research is intrinsically interdisciplinary. It includes the areas of dance, biomechanics, mathematical modeling, motor control, motor learning, physics, body-environment interfaces, mixed media, computational neuroscience, neurophysiology, and rehabilitation.
