Biographical Info

Julia Dunn is a Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Utah. Her research is focused on understanding and replicating upper extremity motion to test the stability of orthopedic and prosthetic implants.

Julia led a Science Right Now! workshop for YIC, sharing her research and encouraging the students to think like scientists by building a model of a finger using household items and critically thinking about the limitations of the model they just made. She related this exercise to the research conducted in the Orthopedic Research Laboratory, using fluoroscopy and robotics to replicate human motion.