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Steffi Colyer is a Senior Lecturer in Biomechanics at the Department for Health, University of Bath. She is affiliated with the Centre for Health and Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport and the Bath Institute for the Augmented Human. Her research is supported by major grants from EPSRC and ESA, focusing on elite athletic performance, rehabilitation, and motion analysis technologies.
Her research interests center on biomechanics of athletic performance, particularly in sports such as skeleton, badminton, and sprinting. She investigates the kinetic and kinematic determinants of elite performance, develops markerless motion capture systems for real-world analysis, and applies musculoskeletal modelling to understand internal loading and adaptation in normal and simulated gravity environments. Her work bridges sports science, engineering, and rehabilitation.
The recent trend in her publications shows a strong focus on markerless motion analysis, pose estimation, musculoskeletal modelling, and the biomechanics of sprinting and racket sports. She leverages advanced computational methods, including deep learning and in silico simulations, to improve performance analysis and injury prevention.
Her scientific awards include:
- ISBS New Investigator Award finalist (oral) (co-author), 2022
- Departmental Staff Award for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, 2025
She has supervised multiple research students and projects, including PhD and postdoctoral work, and is actively involved in peer review for journals such as Journal of Sports Sciences, Scientific Reports, and Journal of Biomechanics. She leads the IAA project on markerless motion capture for skeleton push-start analysis and contributes to the CAMERA initiative, a major interdisciplinary research center focused on motion analysis and virtual reality applications.
Her research is conducted within the Centre for the Analysis of Motion, Entertainment Research and Applications (CAMERA), where she collaborates with computer scientists, engineers, and sports scientists to develop and apply cutting-edge motion capture technologies in real-world settings.
