Rate My Professor Laura Diamond

Professor Laura Diamond is a Professor in the School of Allied Health, Sport and Social Work at Griffith University, where she also serves as Deputy Director of the Australian Centre for Precision Health and Technology (PRECISE) and Research Leader at the Griffith Centre of Biomedical and Rehabilitation Engineering (GCORE). An NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow, Diamond specializes in musculoskeletal and orthopaedic biomechanics. Her research integrates neuromusculoskeletal modelling, medical imaging, and motion analysis to develop personalised digital humans for estimating joint stresses and loads, with applications in hip osteoarthritis management, movement retraining interventions using wearable technology, and clinical biomechanics.

Diamond earned her PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2016, focusing on hip joint neuromuscular control and biomechanics. She is a trained biomedical engineer from Dalhousie University, Canada, holding a BEng and MASc, and completed a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education at Griffith University. Since joining Griffith University in 2016 as an Associate Professor and Research Leader, she has advanced to full Professor. She received the Young Tall Poppy Science Award in 2021 for her contributions as a biomechanist. Diamond serves on the editorial board of BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders and co-chairs discussion groups on hip osteoarthritis. Key publications include 'Individuals with mild-to-moderate hip osteoarthritis have lower hip abductor muscle strength' (Loureiro et al., BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2018), 'Shape differences in the semitendinosus following tendon harvest for ACL reconstruction' (du Moulin et al., Journal of Orthopaedic Research, 2022), 'Diagnosing Hip Microinstability: an international consensus study' (Khanduja et al., Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, 2023), and 'First-ever biomechanics study of Indigenous weapons' (Langley and Diamond, The Conversation, 2024). With over 140 publications cited nearly 2900 times, her work influences orthopaedic rehabilitation, precision health, and STEM engagement, including initiatives supporting high school girls in STEM learning.