Biography:
Songlin Zhu is a PhD student in Kinesiology at Western University, Canada. Originally from China, she came to Canada on her own for undergraduate study in 2016 and continued on to a research journey in Wolf Orthopaedic Biomechanics Lab (WOBL) for her Master’s studies with Dr. Thomas Jenkyn, focusing on foot and ankle biomechanics. Now she switched gears a bit towards transdisciplinary osteoarthritis (OA) research. Supervised by Dr. Trevor Birmingham and Dr. Tom Appleton at both WOBL and Synovial Translational Biology Lab, she uses gait analysis and medical imaging as main approaches to study synovitis mechanisms in OA and explores how foot dynamics change after OA patients receive orthopaedic surgeries.
Title : Development of a clinically useful multi-segment kinetic foot model