Mohsen Shafizadeh teaches skill acquisition and movement analysis on the sport and exercise science-related degrees and cover both sport and clinical settings. Current research interests include movement re-acquisition and using dynamic system theory in rehabilitation and performance enhancement.

Mohsen Shafizadeh was appointed to the academic staff of the Academy of Sport and Physical Activity in 2012. He has teaching responsibilities in the areas of skill acquisition and performance analysis and he has role as module leader for both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

His research expertise lies mainly in the acquisition and re-acquisition of motor skills and analysis performance in both healthy population and people with long-term neurological conditions. Another area is application of theories of ecological-dynamic in practice for talent development and skill refinement.

Before he came to Sheffield Hallam University, he had a postdoc research position in University College London on a funded project in low-back pain and physical activity and he was responsible to record muscle activity using wireless EMG systems in different types of movement patterns. He graduated in 2004 in motor behaviour and his PhD dissertation was about attentional focus and learning bimanual coordination skills in anticipatory tasks.

Specialist areas of interest

Movement rehabilitation, movement analysis, motor control and learning, performance analysis