Affiliation: Politecnico di Milano, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Dr. Alex P. Moorhead earned his B.S. in Exercise Science from the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs in 2013. He then earned his M.S. in Biomechanics from the same university in 2015. During which time, Dr. Moorhead researched the effect of rider anthropometrics, posture, and bicycle geometry on pitch-over phenomena while also working at the Sports Medicine Clinic at the United States Olympic Training Center. He then moved to Milan to earn his PhD in Integrated Biomedical Research from the University of Milan within the Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation in the laboratory of Physiomechanics of Locomotion. Since completing his doctorate, he has been working as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Polytechnic University of Milan in the Department of Mechanical Engineering where he leads masters and PhD students in gait studies of subjects exposed to whole-body vibration.