Curriculum Vitae: Dagmar Sternad

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  2017-2022: NIH-K23 Career Development Award: The relation of altered pain processing to impact loading and response to a gait retraining intervention in knee osteoarthritis 07/01/17-06/30/22
  

Principal Investigator: Joshua Stefanik, Mentor: Dagmar Sternad. (Impact score 20) Total direct costs to JS: $827,820

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  2016: MIT-G00005030: Support for use of experimental facilities.
  

Principal Investigator: Pawan Sinha, Dagmar Sternad. Total direct costs: $7,500.

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  2013 – 2016: NIH-R21 DC013095-01: Prosody in congenital and acquired dysarthria
  

Principal Investigator: Rupal Patel, Co-Investigator: Dagmar Sternad. Total Costs: $414,041 (Priority percentile: 1%).

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  2010 – 2016: NIH-R01-HD045639: Variability and stability in skill acquisition
  

Principal Investigator: Dagmar Sternad, National Institutes of Health. Total: $1,542,159 (priority percentile: 2%).

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  2015 – 2016: Museum of Science: Living Laboratory Senior Thesis Scholarship: Pitchers and pianists: timing in discrete and rhythmic motor skills.
  

Student Investigator: Dena Guo, Mentor: Dagmar Sternad.

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  2016: Provost Research Award: Timing accuracy in a throwing task.
  

Principal Investigator: Dena Guo. Supervisor: Dagmar Sternad. $3,000.

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  2014 – 2016: F31 NIH Ruth Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellowship: The influence of ambulatory biofeedback schedules on the retention of vocal motor behavior
  

PhD Student: Jarrad van Stan. Mentor: Dagmar Sternad. Total: $60,000.

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  2015: Provost Research Award and Creative Endeavors Award: Human control of complex objects: Stability in the face of perturbations.
  

Principal Investigator: Julia Ebert. Supervisor: Dagmar Sternad. $1,875.

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  2015: Provost Research Award: Neural and behavioral crosstalk during learning a polyrhythmic bimanual skill.
  

Principal Investigator: Courtney Stead. Supervisor: Dagmar Sternad. $3,000.

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  2015: Provost Research Award: Effects of metric structure strength on motor learning of temporal rhythms.
  

Principal Investigator: Keith Harrigian. Supervisor: Dagmar Sternad. $1,000.

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  2012 – 2015: US Army Research Institute for Behavioral and Social Sciences W5J9CQ-12-C-0046: The effect of threat on task performance: testing the threat-induced potentiation of prepotent responses model
  

Principal Investigator: Steve Harkins. Total: $575,681.

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  2011 – 2014: International Grant to University of Beijing: Multi-joint intelligent prosthesis based on EMG control
  

Principal Investigator: Long Wang and Kunlin Wei, Co-Investigator: Dagmar Sternad. Total: $320,000 to University of Beijng.

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  2014: Provost Undergraduate Research Award, Northeastern University: Limits in human timing accuracy
  

Student: Dena Guo. Mentor: Dagmar Sternad. Total: $1,000.

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  2013: Provost Undergraduate Research Award, Northeastern University: Neuroplasticity in learning and retention of asymmetric bimanual movement
  

Student: Julia Cowenhoven. Mentor: Dagmar Sternad. Total: $1,000.

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  2013 – 2014: Tier I Seed Grant Vice Provost of Research, Northeastern University: Development of an adaptive clinician-friendly virtual rehabilitation system and its evaluation in post-operative shoulder therapy
  

Principal Investigator: Dagmar Sternad, Co-Investigators: Miriam Leeser, Amee Seitz. Total: $50,000.

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  2009 – 2014: NSF DMS-0928587 PRISM: Attracting students to Mathematics, Physics and Biology through interdisciplinary research and discovery
  

Principal Investigator: Richard Porter, Co-PI: Dagmar Sternad, Total: $1,987,411.

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  2011 – 2014: American Heart Association, 11SDG7270001, National Center Research Program. Training dual-task walking after stroke: effects on attentional and locomotor control
  

Principal Investigator: Prudence Plummer d’Amato, Co-Investigator: Dagmar Sternad. Total: $308,000.

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  2010 – 2013: DFG-MU 1374/3-1: (Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft, Germany): Feedbackverarbeitung beim motorischen Lernen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von motorischem Rauschen (The role of motor noise in feedback processing in motor learning)
  

Principal Investigator: Hermann Müller, Consultant: Dagmar Sternad, Total: $210,000 to University of Giessen.

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  2013: Provost Undergraduate Research Award, Northeastern University: Origins of asymmetric learning in an asymmetric bimanual task
  

Student: Julia Ebert. Mentor: Dagmar Sternad. Total: $1,000.

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  2011 – 2013: Tier I Seed Grant Vice Provost of Research, Northeastern University: Central fatigue in motor, sensory and cognitive performance
  

Principal Investigator: Dagmar Sternad, Therese Pirozzi O’Neill, Ying-Yee Kong, Deniz Erdogmus: Total: $50,000.

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  2012: Mathworks Sponsorship of Research Assistant Meghan Huber: Development of Matlab-based virtual rehabilitation systems using Microsoft Kinect.
  

Principal Investigator: Miriam Leeser. Support: $10,000.

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  2011 – 2013: NIH 1F32 AR061238: Postdoctoral Training Fellowship: Learning to control flexible objects using error-tolerant movement strategies
  

Principal Investigator: Christopher J. Hasson, Sponsor: Dagmar Sternad. Total: $119,499.

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  2009 – 2010: DAAD 0809950: Effektorabhängige und unabhängige Anteile beim motorischen Transfer (Effector-dependent and independent contributions in motor transfer)
  

Principal Investigators: Heiko Maurer and Lisa Pendt, Contact and Collaborator: Dagmar Sternad, approx. $20,000 to University of Giessen.

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  2005 – 2010: BCS-0904464: Dynamics of action and perception in a rhythmic task
  

Principal Investigator: Dagmar Sternad, National Science Foundation, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Science, Perception, Action and Cognition, $355,000.

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  2003 – 2010: R01 HD045639: Variability and stability in skill acquisition
  

Principal Investigator: Dagmar Sternad, National Institutes of Health, $1,237,155.

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  2005 – 2009: ONR N00014-05-1-0844: Anomalous behavior detection related to IEDs
  

Principal Investigator: Lora Weiss, Applied Research Lab, Co-Investigator: Dagmar Sternad, $225,000.

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  2006 – 2007: Penn State 421-55 1001: Control of manual positioning sequences
  

Investigator: David Rosenbaum. Co-Investigator: Dagmar Sternad. Social Science Research Institute, $20,000.

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  2004 – 2007: TSF 4100020604: Integrative functional imaging of cognitive systems in the developing brain
  

Principal Investigator: Dr. Paul Eslinger, Hershey Medical Center, Co-Investigator: Dagmar Sternad, Pennsylvania Department of Health, Tobacco Formula Funded Health Research, $224,410.

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  1995 – 1996: A dynamical analysis of force production in rhythmic tapping and its application as a diagnostic tool for Parkinson patients.
  

Principal Investigator: Dagmar Sternad. Co-Investigator: Dr. Karl Newell. Interdisciplinary Seed Grant of the College of Health and Human Development. $5,000.

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  1997 – 1998: Individual route planning in large-scale traffic simulations
  

Principal Investigator: Chris Barrett. Los Alamos National Laboratories and the Santa Fe Institute for Complex Systems, Co-Investigator: Dagmar Sternad, $35,000.

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  1998 – 1999: NSF: Conference grant: Progress in Motor Control II
  

Principal Investigator: Dagmar Sternad. Co-Investigators: Mark Latash and the Conference Organizing Committee. National Science Foundation (NSF), Integrative Biology and Neuroscience. $10,000.

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  1997 – 2001: NSF-SBR 97-10312: Multi-joint dynamics: A model for discrete and rhythmic movements
  

Principal Investigator: Dagmar Sternad. Co-Investigator: Dr. Stefan Schaal, University of Southern California and ATR Human Information Research Laboratories, Japan. National Science Foundation, Social, Behavioral and Economic Research, Human Cognition and Perception, $203,845.

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  2002: DFG: Sensorimotor control of biped walking: Acquisition of dynamics and statics in the generation of walking patterns
  

Principal Investigator: Karl-Theodor Kalveram, Department of Psychology, University of Düsseldorf, Germany. Co-Investigator: Dagmar Sternad. Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft (DFG), German equivalent to the National Science Foundation. $3,000. (3-month internships of students in my lab) $50,000.

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  2005: International conference: Progress in Motor Control V: A multidisciplinary perspective
  

Principal Investigator: Dagmar Sternad. Level–I Proposal to the Children, Youth and Families Consortium, The Pennsylvania State University, $6,000.

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  2005: NIH: International conference: Progress in Motor Control V: A multidisciplinary perspective
  

Principal Investigator: Dagmar Sternad. National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, $3,000.

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  2005: International conference: Progress in Motor Control V: A multidisciplinary perspective
  

Principal Investigator: Dagmar Sternad. The Huck Institute, Pennsylvania State University, $5,000.

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  2001 – 2005: NSF-BCS-0096543: Discrete and rhythmic dynamics in multijoint movements
  

Principal Investigator. Dagmar Sternad. Co-Investigator: Stefan Schaal. National Science Foundation, Human Cognition and Perception, $342,902.