Camila Shirota

Advanced Queensland Fellow

The Hopkins Centre, Griffith University.

Camila Shirota is the Research Lead of HabITec (2020-present) - a socio-technical space where rehabilitation stakeholders (people with disability, practitioners, researchers, designers and developers, among others) collaborate to provide tailored and innovative technological solutions. Camila’s goal is to improve the development and value of clinically relevant technologies for rehabilitation such as assistive and therapeutic devices. She is driven to increase the translation and implementation of technologies into the clinic and home. She received her Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering (2015) from Northwestern University while working at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (now Shirley Ryan AbilityLab). During her Ph.D., she investigated able-bodied and above-knee amputee balance recovery from tripping perturbations during walking. She was then a post-doctoral researcher at ETH Zurich (2015-2019), where she used powered exoskeletons to investigated unimpaired walking, and strategies to restore locomotor function in people with spinal cord injury. She was also a researcher at the University of Zurich (2018-2019), where she studied the use of technology to support unsupervised gait training post-stroke.

Her research interests include: