Daniel Viggiani

Dan is a teaching-focused biomechanist with expertise in injury mechanics, sensorimotor integration, and muscle fatigue. He obtained his Ph.D. in Kinesiology from the University of Waterloo in 2021 and joined the University of Regina in 2024. 

Dan's current teaching responsibilities include courses in biomechanics, ergonomics, motor control, statistics, and anatomy within the Faculty of Kinesiology & Health Studies. In his teaching, he emphasizes directed practice and feedback in an effort to support students to be self-sufficient learners. In the classroom, his approaches include physical demonstrations, low-stakes assignments, mathematical models in places you'd least expect them, and the drawing of many graphs. 

In his research, Dan investigates the variation and control of spine postures in relation to muscular responses, proprioception, and mechanical sensitivity, all to try to understand how people develop and live with low back pain. His approaches combine experimental lab studies and computer-based simulations, with his most recent work investigating interactions between spine flexion, muscle fatigue, and pain development. You can find his research profile here.

Outside of his campus responsibilities, Dan plays the piano, swims, reads novels, drinks coffee after 3 PM, and owns a lot of board games. He claims no excellence at any of these things, but they also don't cause him low back pain yet.