{{Short description|Associate professor in biomechanics and researcher}} {{Multiple issues| {{COI|date=August 2025}} {{No significant coverage|date=August 2025}} {{BLP primary sources|date=August 2025}} {{Notability|date=August 2025}} }} {{Use British English|date=August 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2025}}
'''Taylor J. M. Dick''' is a Canadian-born Associate Professor and the Director of Higher Degree Research at the School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland. Dick is recognised for her research in neuromuscular biomechanics, where she focuses on the fundamental mechanisms of movement and their implications for health, disease, and evolution.
== Academic background == Dick completed her PhD in 2016 at Simon Fraser University.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |date=2025-07-22 |title=Associate Professor Taylor Dick |url=https://biomedical-sciences.uq.edu.au/profile/5875/taylor-dick |access-date=2025-07-27 |website=biomedical-sciences.uq.edu.au |language=en}}</ref> Following her doctorate, she undertook postdoctoral training in biomedical engineering at the University of North Carolina, where she investigated how bio-robotic devices affect locomotor energetics and neuromechanical stability during perturbations.<ref name=":1" />
In 2017, Dick joined the University of Queensland.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2019-04-12 |title=A global career built on biomedical research |url=https://biomedical-sciences.uq.edu.au/article/2019/04/global-career-built-biomedical-research |access-date=2025-07-27 |website=biomedical-sciences.uq.edu.au |language=en}}</ref> There, Dick established the Neuromuscular Biomechanics Laboratory and later became Director of Higher Degree Research at the School of Biomedical Sciences.<ref name=":2">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEckHo1nRTw |title=Meet Dr Taylor Dick |date=2018-09-06 |last=UQ Faculty of Medicine |access-date=2025-07-27 |via=YouTube}}</ref><ref name=":1" />
Dick's research and leadership have been recognised with the Queensland Tall Poppy Award,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-06-12 |title=Queensland Young Tall Poppy Science Awards |url=https://www.chiefscientist.qld.gov.au/science-comms/programs-events/science-celebration |access-date=2025-07-27 |website=Queensland Chief Scientist |language=en-AU}}</ref> the International Union of Physiologists Junior Faculty Award,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-09-11 |title=Awards |url=https://www.iups.org/iups/awards/ |access-date=2025-07-27 |website=International Union of Physiological Sciences |language=en-US}}</ref> and the International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology Kevin P. Granata Award.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Granata Award |url=https://isek.org/granata-award/ |access-date=2025-07-27 |website=International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology (ISEK) |language=en-US}}</ref> Dick received the International Society of Biomechanics Jaquelin Perry Emerging Scientist Award and has been twice nominated for the Faculty of Medicine Rising Star of the Year Award.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jacquelin Perry Emerging Female Scientist Award |url=https://isbweb.org/activities/awards-and-honours/jacquelin-perry-award |access-date=2025-07-27 |website=International Society of Biomechanics |language=en-gb}}</ref><ref name=":1" />
In addition to her research work, Dick was elected a member of the Executive Council of the International Society of Biomechanics and named Chair of the Comparative Neuromuscular Biomechanics Technical Group.<ref name=":1" />
==External links== * [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ATq7QRUAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao Taylor JM Dick] publications as index by Google Scholar * [https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/19714 The University of Queensland Researcher Profile]
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