About
Leigh Ann Mrotek, PhD, is ICTR’s Research Navigator and a trained neuroscientist who manages ICTR’s Research and Protocol Development Program (RaPD). In this role, Dr. Mrotek assists investigators in planning their research studies and preparing their regulatory documents, with a focus on protocols.
Before joining ICTR, Dr. Mrotek was a professor and chair in the kinesiology department at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where she led the Motor Control Laboratory. Her research focused on the speed at which we adjust our eye and hand movements to respond to environmental changes, highlighting how our ability to navigate the world depends on quickly and accurately adapting to unexpected changes–like a football defender responding to a receiver or adjusting one’s gait in a crowded hallway.
Dr. Mrotek has experience being PI on multiple NIH and NSF grants related to the control and learning of motor behaviors and altering movements to match the environment.