Fundamentals of Neuromechanics

Offers step-by-step procedures to create neuro-musculo-skeletal models, to understand function, versatility and disability, and innovative robotic designs Broadens your understanding of the complex interactions, between the nervous system and the anatomy of a limb to produce versatile function Equips readers to understand and advance in the most current theories and debates in sensorimotor neuroscience. Provides ample on-line supplementary material, exercises and computer code Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Francisco Valero-Cuevas is a Full Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and the Division of Biokinesiology & Physical Therapy at the University of Southern California. He also holds appointments in the departments of Aerospace & Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science. Prior to this he was Assistant and Associate Professor at Cornell University.

He holds a Bachelor's degree in Engineering Science from Swarthmore College, a Masters degree from Queen's University, and a Doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering focused on neuroscience from Stanford University.

He has been visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland, and the Institute of Sports Sciences in Innsbruck, Austria. He has served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and Guest Editor of PLoS Computational Biology. In 2013 he was elected Senior Member of the IEEE, and in 2014 to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineers.

His research focuses on an integrative approach to brain-body interactions for versatile function in machines and organisms.

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