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Professor
Marquette University and Medical College of Wisconsin
Dr. Scheidt earned the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Marquette University in 1989 and the MS and PhD degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University in 1992 and 1999. Before taking a faculty position at Marquette University in 2000, Dr. Scheidt served as a systems engineer at Baxter Healthcare and as Senior Research Scientist at Medical Research Labs, Inc. Dr. Scheidt founded and directs the Neuromotor Control Laboratory at Marquette University and the Medical College of Wisconsin; the lab uses robotic tools, simple virtual reality systems, and wearable technologies to probe how the human nervous system uses sensory information to optimize movements and interactions with the physical environment. Dr. Scheidt recently completed a 4-year term with the National Science Foundation as a Program Director for the Mind, Machine and Motor Nexus (M3X) program, the Future of Work and the Human-Technology Frontier (FW-HTF) program, and the Foundational Research in Robotics program (FRR).