Profile

Silvia Salinas Blemker is Robert Thomson’s distinguished professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Virginia. She leads the Multiscale Muscle Mechanophysiology lab which develops multi-scale computational and experimental techniques to study skeletal muscle biomechanics and physiology. The lab explores a range of applications including speech disorders, vision impairments, aging, muscular dystrophies, and human performance. Current projects include developing models that incorporate for sex-differences in musculoskeletal structure and simulating the effects of estrogen levels on muscle regeneration. Blemker is also co-founder and chief scientific officer of Springbok Analytics, a company commercializing image-based muscle analytics ai technology for multiple applications from muscle diseases to sports medicine.