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Rodger Kram
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
320 Points

Contributions by role

Author 270
Preprint Author 35
Reviewer 15

Contributions by subject area

Bioengineering
Kinesiology
Anatomy and Physiology
Anthropology

Rodger Kram

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Rodger Kram, Ph.D. is an associate professor emeritus in the Integrative Physiology Dept. at the University of Colorado Boulder where he directs the Locomotion Laboratory. His primary research interest is the biomechanical basis for the energetic cost of locomotion. Rodger studies basic scientific aspects of walking and running in healthy, young people, and how obesity, aging, prosthetics and shoes affect locomotion energetics and biomechanics. In addition to his human studies, Rodger has studied more than 40 animal species ranging in size from ants to elephants and in speed from tortoises to pronghorn antelope. He invented the first useful force-measuring treadmill and enjoys devising novel devices to facilitate his research. He has published approximately 100 peer-reviewed scientific articles, including some in prestigious journals including Nature, Science and the Proceedings of the Royal Society.

Rodger earned his B.A. in Biology at Northwestern University, M.S. at Penn State, Ph.D. in Biology from Harvard. He was a post-doc then assistant professor at UC Berkeley until 2000. He served as president of the American Society of Biomechanics in 2008 and was the ASB Borelli award winner for lifetime career accomplishments in 2015. One of his greatest prides is that all of his Ph.D. students and post-docs have found gainful employment in science and most are tenure track faculty at major research universities.

Anatomy & Physiology Kinesiology

Editing Journals

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Colorado
University of Colorado at Boulder

Work details

Associate Professor Emeritus

University of Colorado at Boulder
August 2000
Integrative Physiology
Only semi-retired. Still have an active research program but no more classroom teaching.

Websites

  • Rodger Kram
  • Locomotion Lab

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 2
  • Preprints 1
December 20, 2019
Modelling the effect of curves on distance running performance
Paolo Taboga, Rodger Kram
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8222 PubMed 31879575
July 15, 2014
Applying the cost of generating force hypothesis to uphill running
Wouter Hoogkamer, Paolo Taboga, Rodger Kram
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.482 PubMed 25083347
August 6, 2019 - Version: 1
Modelling the effect of curves on distance running performance
Paolo Taboga, Rodger Kram
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27884v1