Alena Grabowski earned her Ph.D. from the University of Colorado Boulder Locomotion Laboratory in 2007 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Biomechatronics Group at MIT in 2011. She seeks to better understand the interaction of physiology and biomechanics during human locomotion; specifically how the implementation of wearable mechanical devices, such as prostheses and exoskeletons, influence walking, running, hopping, and sprinting.