Prof. Mark Taylor is currently a Strategic Professor at the College of Science and Engineering at Flinders University, Adelaide. He has over 20 years of experience in orthopaedic biomechanics and has spent time in both academia and industry. After completing his PhD at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London (1997), he worked for Finsbury Orthopaedics. In 1998, he took up an academic appointment at the School of Engineering Sciences, University of Southampton, UK. Whilst there, he was responsible for the formation and growth of the Bioengineering Sciences Research Group. He obtained the Gisela Sturm Award (1997) for Innovation in Artificial Joint Replacement from the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Truamatology (EFORT). In addition, he is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. His work has focused on developing tools to help assess the performance of existing and new designs for hip and knee replacement. In particular, he has focused on developing methods for assessing the influence of patient and surgical variability. More recently, he has begun to explore using these tools for surgeon training and potentially for decision support to help plan joint replacement operations.
