Meet Matthew Terza, Ph.D., CSCS

Instructional Associate Professor

---

Education

• Ph.D. in Biobehavioral Sciences: Biomechanics, University of Florida (2018)
• M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Florida (2013)
• B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Florida (2011)

Mailing Address

FLG 135
P.O. Box 118205
Gainesville, FL 32611-8205

Biography

Dr. Matt Terza is an Instructional Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Physiology and Kinesiology. His doctoral research focused on locomotor variability, adaptations, learning, and transfer in healthy individuals and in individuals with Parkinson’s Disease. He has since discovered his vocation in teaching as an instructional faculty with expertise is in biomechanics applied to exercise and sport, passive marker-based motion capture instrumentation, motor control theory with a view to complex dynamical systems, and normal and abnormal gait mechanics. His teaching style focuses on engaging students and building class community through embodiment and applied analysis of human movement. He enjoys photography, human movement in a variety of sporting activities, and the process of learning new movement skills. He has served as the advisor several student organizations including Graduate Christian Fellowship.

Classes

• APK3220C Biomechanical Basis of Movement
• APK4050 Research Methods
• APK4943 Teaching Experience in Applied Physiology and Kinesiology
• APK6225 Biomechanical Instrumentation
• APK6226C Biomechanics of Human Movement