Andrew Cresswell is an Associate Professor at The University of Queensland where he has joint appointment in the School of Human Movement Studies and Division of Physiotherapy and head of the Neuromechanics Laboratory. He obtained his Bachelors degree from The University of Ballarat, Australia (‘97) his Masters degree from the University of Western Australia (‘85) and his Medical Doctorate in Neuroscience (’94) and Docent in Human Neurophysiology (’00) from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. He has previously held teaching and research positions at The University of Otago, The Karolinska Institute and The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences.

His research is directed toward understanding how the human brain controls movement using biomechanical and neurophysiology techniques. His particular research interests lie within the areas of the neural control of lengthening and shortening muscle actions, neural aspects of muscle fatigue as well as reflexive and voluntary activation of the abdominal musculature during postural tasks. He has co-authored more than 50 peer reviewed publications in leading scientific journals in biomechanics, neurophysiology and physiology. He has presented at more than 70 international conferences and is regularly invited to deliver addresses at symposia and conferences.

He is an Associate Editor for Acta Physiologica, the journal of the European Physiological Society, has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology and currently reviews for several additional scientific journals. Andrew has been a member of the International Society of Biomechanics since 1989 and has presented his research at eight of their meetings. He also is a member of other societies including the Society for Neuroscience, The American Physiological Society and The American College of Sports Medicine. Andrew will bring to the society his expertise and knowledge of using biomechanics to address issues of human movement.