Amanda Esquivel, Ph.D.

Dr. Esquivel is currently serving at the U.S. National Science Foundation as the Program Director for the Disability and Rehabilitation Engineering Program in the Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems Division within the Engineering Directorate.

Areas of Research Interests

• Injury Biomechanics
• Injury Biomechanics
• Sport Related Biomechanics
• Human Movement
• Brain Injury
• ACL Injury
• Orthopedics
• Athletic Injuries

Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University, 2008

M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Wayne State University, 2005

B.S.E., Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, 2001

Mink Z and Esquivel AO. Do Experienced Adolescent Competition Dancers Alter Landing Kinematics and Kinetics For Split Leaps or Center Leaps After Fatigue? Journal of Applied Biomechanics. 2024

Ajdaroski M, Baek SY, Ashton-Miller JA, and Esquivel AO.  Predicting leg forces and knee moments using IMUs: an in vitro study. ASME Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. 2024 Feb; 146(2); https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4064145

Ajdaroski M and Esquivel A. Can Wearable Sensors Provide Accurate and Reliable 3D Tibiofemoral Angle Estimates During Dynamic Actions? Sensors 2023. 23(14), 6627; https://doi.org/10.3390/s23146627

Esquivel A, Marincean S, Benore M. The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on STEM faculty: Productivity and work-life balance. PLoS ONE. 2023 Jan;18(1) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280581

Baker G, Kim W, Rowe M, Argento A, Esquivel A. Impact Mitigation Properties and Material Characterization of Women’s Lacrosse Headgear. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 2022 Oct; 50(11):1648-1660.

Kuo C, Patton D, Rooks T, Tierney G, McIntosh A, Lynall R, Esquivel A, Daniel R, Kaminski T, Mihalik J, Dau N, Urban J. On-Field Deployment and Validation for Wearable Devices. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 2022 Nov; 50(11): 1372-1388.

Baek SY, Ajdaroski M, Shahshahani PM, Beaulieu M, Esquivel AO, Ashton-Miller JA. A Comparison of Inertial Measurement Unit and Motion Capture Measurements of Tibiofemoral Kinematics during Simulated Pivot Landings. Sensors. 2022 June; 22(12).

Bowman T, Lininger M, Esquivel A, Breedlove K. The Effect of Soccer and Lacrosse Participation and Video Verified Head Impact Biomechanics on Clinical Concussion Measures. Neurology and Neurobiology. 2022 May; 5(2).

Ajdaroski M, Ashton-Miller JA, Baek SY, Shahshahani PM, Esquivel AO Testing a Quaternion Conversion Method to Determine Human Three-Dimensional Tibiofemoral Angles During an In Vitro Simulated Jump Landing. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. 2022 Apr;144(4).

Rajaram P, Sherman D, Esquivel A, MacDonald, R, Bir C Validation of the Facial Ocular CountermeasUre for Safety (FOCUS) Headform for the Injury Risk Assessment of Less Lethal Impact Munitions. Human Factors and Mechanical Engineering for Defense and Safety. 2022 Mar;6(1), 1-11.

Bir C, Sherman D, MacDonald, R, Esquivel A Assessment of Less lethal Impact Munitions Using the Facial and Ocular CountermeasUre for Safety (FOCUS) Headform. Human Factors and Mechanical Engineering for Defense and Safety. 2022 Feb; 6(2).

Johnson SM, Esquivel AO, Lovse L, Cracchiolo A, Bishai S, Chen C, Lemos SE. Anatomic Acromioclavicular Joint Reconstruction with and without Acromioclavicular Ligament Reconstruction: A Comparative Biomechanical Study. Shoulder & Elbow. January 2022. doi:10.1177/17585732211068322