Academics and Research

Professor improves inequalities through sports product design

Susan Sokolowski uses transdisciplinary research and design to help underserved users push their limits

In her work as a professor and director of the UO Sport Product Design Program, Susan Sokolowski, PhD, innovates products to help people live longer and better lives. Drawing from the fields of anthropometry, data science, biomechanics, physiology, materials science, psychology, and product design, her ideas help underserved users, including women, disabled athletes, and people of extended sizes, overcome inequalities.“