Jesse completed his MSc (2017) and PhD (2022) at UBC where he studied the biomechanical consequences of musculoskeletal disease, strategies to improve clinical and structural outcomes of knee osteoarthritis through modifying movement, and the application of wearable sensors to monitor movement in free-living contexts. Currently, he is a post-doctoral fellow in the School or Kinesiology and Biomedical Engineering where he is investigating the interplay between movement variability and motor adaptation during locomotion. His research uses a motion-stimulation coupled wearable system to generate movement-evoked experimental pain to drive adaptation in real-world environments.
Research Interests
- Biomechanics
- Musculoskeletal pain
- Rehabilitation
Honours & Awards
- Banting Fellowship
- Michael Smith Health Research BC Postdoctoral Fellowship
Current Projects
Exploration and exploitation. A stimulus-response model of movement variability and motor adaptation during human ambulation.
I use novel strategies to induce movement-coupled pain as a means of investigating how our nervous system adapts to different contexts. I have designed a real-time, human-in-the-loop system that connects electrical stimulation with movement kinematics to create unique experimental contexts.