Research Team
Director - Mario Lamontagne, PhD
Dr. Lamontagne’s research focuses on biomedical sciences and biomechanics, particularly on numerical and musculoskeletal modelling of human joints, design and adaptive technology of prosthetics and orthotics, injury prevention and neuromuscular adaptation. He has supervised more than 80 students at the master’s and doctoral levels. He has published more than 80 refereed papers and more 320 scientific contributions. Over the past 30 years, he has received research funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). As well, he has received research grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR). His major research programs focus on the mechanics of the human healthy and pathological hip and knee joint, as well as on the biomechanical assessment of the mobility of patients who have undergone a total hip and knee arthroplasty. His research interests include biomedical sciences, biomechanics, numerical and musculoskeletal modeling, injury prevention, assisted technology design (prosthetics and orthotics), and neuromuscular adaptation. His current research program funded by NSERC is to develop a numerical and musculoskeletal model of the hip joint for patients suffering from the femoroacetabular deformity.
1984 – 1986 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Exercise Sciences, Concordia U., Montreal, QC
1986 – 1990 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Kinanthropology, U. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
1990 – 1998 Associate Professor in the School of Human Kinetics
1998 – 2018 Full Professor, School of Human Kinetics, U. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
1998 – 2018 Full Professor (cross-appointed), Dept. Mechanical Eng., U. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
2003 – 2004 Acting Director and Associate Dean, School of Human Kinetics, U. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
2016 – 2018 Vice-Dean Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, U. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
2018 – Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, U. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON
Awards and Honors
2018 Kappa Delta Elizabeth Winston Lanier Award of the AAOS
2010 Fellows of the International Society of Biomechanics on Sports
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Post-Doctoral Fellows
Danilo S. Catelli, PhD
Danilo joined the HMBL team in September 2013. His current research project focuses on investigating the role of physical activity in the development of hip impingement morphology in adolescents. He is particularly interested in integrating musculoskeletal modelling to evaluate how physical activity may influence the development of the cam femoroacetabular impingement. He completed his PhD at University of Ottawa in 2018 under the supervision of Dr. Lamontagne, where he incorporated joint biomechanics and musculoskeletal modelling to quantify the surgical effectiveness in patients after hip arthroscopy or total hip replacement.
Danilo graduated from Federal University of São Carlos with a Bachelor in Physical Education and Teaching (‘08) and he concluded his MSc in Bioengineering at University of São Paulo (‘10). From 2011 to 2013, he worked as Assistant Professor and was the Dean of the College of Physical Education at Faculdade Sete de Setembro (Brazil). He currently is a member of the ISB, ISBS, ORS and EORS societies.
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Graduate Students
Erik Kowalski, M.Sc. (Ph.D. Candidate)
Erik joined the Human Movement Biomechanics Laboratory as the laboratory coordinator in August 2015. In September 2018, he began his PhD under the supervision of Mario Lamontagne. His current research project focuses on understanding which pre-operative muscle parameters are predicative of post-operative muscle function and mobility between high and low-functioning total knee replacement patients.
Erik completed his MSc at the University of Ottawa under the supervision of Dr. Jingxian Li, where his research compared biomechanical differences between forefoot and rearfoot strike running patterns, and how these two different landing patterns impacted joint loading during uphill and downhill running. As an active runner who trains for at least one marathon each year, he began to wonder why some people can continue to run without knee pain into their older years, while others cannot run more than a few kilometers without experiencing knee pain. This led Erik to become involved with Mario’s research on knee osteoarthritis and total knee replacements.
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