Professor Amy Zavatsky studied Bioengineering as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania. Having received a Thouron Award for postgraduate study in the UK, she enrolled at the University of Oxford (Hertford College) and completed a doctorate in the area of orthopaedic biomechanics. She subsequently held a post-doctoral research appointment in Oxford University’s Department of Engineering Science, alongside a Junior Research Fellowship and Lecturership in Engineering at St Hilda’s College. She is currently a Reader in Engineering Science and a Fellow and Tutor in Engineering at St Edmund Hall.