Leia Stirling
Associate Professor
Location
G634
Additional title(s)
- NIOSH COHSE-OSE Director
- IOE Department DEI Committee Chair
- College of Engineering IOE DEI Department Lead
Primary Website
https://stirling.engin.umich.edu/
Personal Pronouns
she/her
Related Links
- Robotics Institute
- Center for Ergonomics (C4E)
- Center for Occupational Health and Safety Engineering (COHSE)
EDUCATION
- Ph.D. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 2008;
- B.S. and M.S., Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, 2003 and 2005;
- Postdoctoral Fellow Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 2009
Research Interests
- Biomechanics
- Decision Support Systems
- Human Factors
- Human-autonomy/robot interaction
- Human Motion
- Multimodal Displays
- Work Measurement
- Wearable Technology
Biography
Leia Stirling is an Associate Professor in Industrial and Operations Engineering and Robotics at the University of Michigan, a Core Faculty in the Center for Ergonomics, an Affiliate Faculty in the Space Institute, and the University of Michigan Center for Occupational Health and Safety Engineering (COHSE) Director of Occupational Safety Engineering and Ergonomics. She received her B.S. (2003) and M.S. (2005) in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her Ph.D. (2008) in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. In her interdisciplinary research group, they bring together methods from human factors, biomechanics, and robotics. They strive to understand the physical and cognitive interactions for goal-oriented human task performance and support operational decision making that relies on manual task performance. These goals include reducing musculoskeletal injury risks, supporting telehealth, and improving technology usability.
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
- AIAA Associate Fellow (2021)
- 2019-2020 AAAS Leshner Leadership Public Engagement Fellow
- IEEE Senior member
- HFES Occupational Ergonomics Technical Group Chair Elect
AWARDS
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2015)