Rate My Professor Nikolaos Stergiou

Nikolaos Stergiou, Ph.D., serves as Assistant Dean and Director of the Division of Biomechanics and Research Development in the College of Education, Health and Human Sciences at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). He is the Distinguished Community Research Chair and Full Professor in the Department of Biomechanics, which he established as its Founding Chair from 2015 to 2020. Stergiou also directs the Center for Research in Human Movement Variability (MOVCENTR) and holds a Full Professor position in the Department of Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. His academic journey includes a Ph.D. in Biomechanics from the University of Oregon in 1995, an M.S. in Exercise Science from UNO in 1991, and a B.S. in Exercise Science and Physical Education from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1989. Joining UNO in 1996 as an Assistant Professor, he progressed to Associate Professor in 2002 and Full Professor in 2005, while founding and leading key facilities such as the HPER Biomechanics Laboratory, Center for Research in Biomechanics, and Biomechanics Research Building since 2013.

Stergiou's research centers on biomechanics, with a specialization in human movement variability and nonlinear dynamics, influencing rehabilitation, robotic surgical training, and treatments for conditions like peripheral arterial disease. He has obtained over $40 million in funding from agencies including NIH, NSF, and NASA, authored four textbooks—Biomechanics and Gait Analysis (2020, Academic Press), Advice for the Novice Investigator: Examples Taken from Movement Sciences (2019, CRC Press), Nonlinear Analysis for Human Movement Variability (2017, CRC Press), and Innovative Analyses of Human Movement (2004, Human Kinetics)—and published over 250 peer-reviewed papers, amassing more than 23,000 citations with an h-index exceeding 70 on Google Scholar. His contributions have earned him Fellowships from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2025), American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (2017), American Society of Biomechanics (2017), and National Academy of Kinesiology (2011), as well as Fulbright Scholarships to Portugal (2016) and Greece (2017). Stergiou has mentored over 60 graduate students and postdocs, elevating UNO to a global leader in biomechanics through pioneering infrastructure and international collaborations.