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Personal profile
Research interests
Analysis of how human movement, movement coordiantion and their variability relate with performance, motor skills, skills acquisition and injury, carried out through conventional and dynamical systems approaches.
Integrated assessment of neuro-motor skills and motor learning/adaptation to understand injury mechanism and promote injury prevention strategies.
Biomechanics of (sports) movements (e.g. rugby, race walking, jumping, weightlifting) for performance evaluation and injury prevention.
Footwear biomechanics.
Functional assessment of human motion in clinics, ergonomics and sport.
Health technologies.
Other responsibilities
Director of Internationalisation, Department for Health, university of Bath (UK)
Biomechanics Group coordinator, Department for Health, University of Bath (UK)
Willing to supervise doctoral students
I am willing to supervise PhD students in the area of applied biomechanics and motor control (e.g., sport technique for performance and/or injury prevention; sport technologies and data science applied to movement analysis; assessment of skills and coordination in relation to training, motor learning, rehabilitation and/or specific pathologies). I welcome ideas for interdisciplinary projects and collaboration.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Biomedical Engineering, Master of Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
Award Date: 16 Oct 2003
Bioengineering, Doctor of Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
2004 → 2007
External positions
Member of the Board of Directors, International Society of Biomechanics in Sports
Jul 2023 → …
Academic board member of the Technology for Health PhD Programme, University of Brescia
2 Nov 2021 → …
External Examiner in the University of Edinburgh Moray House School of Education and Sport, for the BSc Applied Sport Science , University of Edinburgh
Oct 2021 → Oct 2025
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Projects
- 11 Finished
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A community-based mobile system for gait retraining and assessment (Rehab Technology Network feasibility fund)
Preatoni, E. (PI) & Seminati, E. (CoI)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
30/04/24 → 30/04/24
Project: Research council
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EPSRC-RTN: Texo-Skeleton: transforming everyday clothing into self-adaptable exoskeleton for musculoskeletal rehabilitation
Preatoni, E. (CoI), Lugoda, P. (PI), Dharmasena, R. D. I. G. (PI), Lieu, B. X. W. (CoI), Kerr, A. (CoI) & Ding, Z. (CoI)
1/07/23 → 31/12/23
Project: Research council
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GW4 BUILDING COMMUNITIES PROGRAMME: GW4 community studying fatigue in people with multiple long-term conditions
L Davies, J. (PI), Dawes, H. (CoI), Busse Morris, M. (CoI), Preatoni, E. (CoI) & Coulthard, L. (CoI)
1/06/23 → 30/11/23
Project: Other
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A sense-act digital technology for the home-based care of diabetic foot ulcers
Preatoni, E. (PI), Cioroianu, I. (CoI), Ehrhardt, B. (CoI), Gurevich, D. (CoI), Kreusser, L. (CoI), Lazarus, J. (CoI), Metcalfe, B. (CoI), Nishtala, P. (CoI), Sharp, T. (CoI) & Carter, J. (Researcher)
25/02/23 → 31/07/23
Project: Research-related funding
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Development of a digital therapeutic intervention to improve the quality of life and reduce the healthcare costs of those living with chronic diseases
Preatoni, E. (PI), Cioroianu, I. (PI), Ehrhardt, B. (PI), Gurevich, D. (PI), Kreusser, L. (PI), Lazarus, J. (PI), Metcalfe, B. (PI), Nishtala, P. (PI) & Sharp, T. (PI)
1/09/22 → 28/02/23
Project: Research-related funding
Research output
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Ear worn inertial sensors can estimate scalar kinetic gait parameters and reconstruct vertical ground reaction force curves during running
Stuchbury-Wass, J., Carter, J., Ciliberto, M., Butkow, K.-J., Yang, Q., Liu, Y., Preatoni, E., Ma, D. & Mascolo, C., 2 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) Abstract book of the 30th Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB). International Society of Biomechanics (ISB), 1 p.Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter in a published conference proceeding
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Recommended effect size interpretations for one-dimensional functional data
Pataki, T., Pini, A., Preatoni, E. & Schelin, L., 2 Apr 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) Abstract book of the 30th Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB). International Society of Biomechanics (ISB), 1 p. 80723Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter in a published conference proceeding
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WalkEar: holistic gait monitoring using earables
Stuchbury-Wass, J., Liu, Y., Butkow, K.-J., Carter, J., Ciliberto, M., Yang, Q., Preatoni, E., Ma, D. & Mascolo, C., 21 Mar 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications: PerCom. IEEE, 11 p. (IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom)).Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter in a published conference proceeding
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AddBiomechanics Dataset: Capturing the Physics of Human Motion at Scale
Werling, K., Kaneda, J., Tan, T., Agarwal, R., Skov, S., Van Wouwe, T., Uhlrich, S., Bianco, N., Ong, C., Falisse, A., Sapkota, S., Chandra, A., Carter, J., Preatoni, E., Fregly, B., Hicks, J., Delp, S. & Liu, C. K., 4 Oct 2024, Computer Vision – ECCV 2024 : 18th European Conference Milan, Italy, September 29–October 4, 2024 Proceedings, Part LXXXVIII. Leonardis, A., Ricci, E., Roth, S., Russakovsky, O., Sattler, T. & Varol, G. (eds.). Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, p. 490-508 19 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 15146 LNCS).Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter in a published conference proceeding
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An extended neck position is likely to produce cervical spine injuries through buckling in accidental head-first impacts during rugby tackling
Silvestros, P., Quarrington, R. D., Preatoni, E., Gill, H. S., Jones, C. F. & Cazzola, D., 30 Nov 2024, In: Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 52, 11, p. 3125-3139 15 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access
Datasets
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Dataset for "Screw tightness and stripping rates vary between biomechanical researchers and practicing orthopaedic surgeons"
Fletcher, J. (Creator), Neumann, V. (Creator), Wenzel, L. (Creator), Gueorguiev, B. (Creator), Richards, R. G. (Creator), Whitehouse, M. (Creator), Gill, R. (Creator) & Preatoni, E. (Creator), University of Bath, 26 Oct 2021
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00955
Dataset
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Dataset for "Augmented screwdrivers can increase the performance of orthopaedic surgeons compared with use of normal screwdrivers"
Fletcher, J. (Creator), Neumann, V. (Creator), Silva-Henao, J. (Creator), Burdon, A. (Creator), Mys, K. (Creator), Panagiotopoulou, V. (Creator), Gueorguiev, B. (Creator), Richards, R. G. (Creator), Whitehouse, M. (Creator), Preatoni, E. (Creator) & Gill, R. (Creator), University of Bath, 22 Nov 2022
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00956
Dataset
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Dataset for "Development and validation of FootNet; a new kinematic algorithm to improve foot-strike and toe-off detection in treadmill running"
Rodriguez Rivadulla, A. (Creator), Chen, X. (Creator), Weir, G. (Creator), Cazzola, D. (Creator), Trewartha, G. (Creator), Hamill, J. (Creator) & Preatoni, E. (Creator), University of Bath, 26 Jul 2021
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00965, https://github.com/adrianrivadulla/FootNet
Dataset
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Data for "Juvenile bovine bone is an appropriate surrogate for normal and reduced density human bone in biomechanical testing"
Fletcher, J. (Creator), Williams, S. (Creator), Whitehouse, M. (Creator), Gill, H. (Creator) & Preatoni, E. (Creator), University of Bath, 5 Jul 2018
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00410
Dataset
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Dataset for "Non-locking screw insertion: no benefit seen if tightness exceeds 80% of the maximum torque"
Fletcher, J. (Creator), Ehrhardt, B. (Creator), MacLeod, A. (Creator), Whitehouse, M. R. (Creator), Gill, H. (Creator) & Preatoni, E. (Creator), University of Bath, 9 Jul 2019
DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00660
Dataset
Prizes
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PhD Scholarship, awarded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research
Preatoni, E. (Recipient), 2004
Prize: Other distinction
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Faculty of Humanity and Social Science Recognising Excellence Award
Preatoni, E. (Recipient), 6 Dec 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Faculty of Humanity and Social Science Recognising Excellence Award
Preatoni, E. (Recipient), 6 Dec 2021
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Faculty of Humanity and Social Science Recognising Excellence Award
Preatoni, E. (Recipient), 9 Dec 2022
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Fellow of International Society of Biomechanics in Sports (FISBS)
Preatoni, E. (Recipient), 16 Jul 2023
Prize: Honorary appointment
Activities
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Bath Institute for the Augmented Human (Organisational unit)
Preatoni, E. (No value)
Oct 2024 → …Activity: Other contribution to the discipline › Role on a committee, board or panel
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Department for Health (Organisational unit)
Preatoni, E. (Chair)
5 Mar 2025 → …Activity: Other contribution to the discipline › Role on a committee, board or panel
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IAH Guest Lecture: Prof Cecilia Mascolo
Preatoni, E. (Organiser)
6 Feb 2025Activity: Academic conferences and events (excluding conference publications) › Other academic event (organisation, presentation, attendance)