Silvia Blemker

Silvia Salinas Blemker is a Full Professor in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia, where her research characterizes the structure and properties of skeletal muscle tissue through biomechanical modelling. She completed a bachelor of science in 1997 and a master of science in 1999, both in bioengineering and biomedical engineering at Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 2004. She joined the University of Virginia as an assistant professor in 2006 and was promoted to professor in 2018. She leads the Multiscale Muscle Mechanophysiology laboratory and in 2013 co-founded Springbok Analytics, a company that applies artificial intelligence to MRI data to measure muscle health, with an FDA-cleared method. In 2024 she was elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors.