Shekoofe Saadat

Shekoofe saadat is an Assistant Professor of Sport Science and Health Education. Shekoofe specializes in biomechanics and motor control and learning. Her research interests include mechanical and neurocognitive risk factors for ACL injuries in young athletes, gait analysis and biomechanical testing of ergonomically designed products such as crutches and upper body exoskeletons.

Prior to joining the faculty at Simpson College, Shekoofe was an assistant professor of kinesiology at Drake University. Shekoofe has also worked as a clinical research fellow at the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation department at University of Michigan focusing the role of gait assistive devices in helping individuals recovering from a stroke to regain their walking abilities.  

PhD, Kinesiology, Iowa State University | 2022
BSc, Electrical Engineering, Tehran Polytechnic | 2015

S Saadat, TE Augenstein, A Gupta, D Shin, OP Adeeko, EP Washabaugh and C Krishnan (2025): Overhead Support Systems Differentially Affect Gait Analysis of Overground and Treadmill Walking, gait and posture. DOI: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2025.04.008

S Saadat, KM Bricarell and JC Gillette (2023): Dual tasking increases kinematic and kinetic risk factors of ACL injury, Sports Biomechanics. DOI: 10.1080/14763141.2023.2271888

S Saadat, ML. Stephenson & JC. Gillette (2022): Entry angle during jump landing changes biomechanical risk factors for ACL injury, Sports Biomechanics, DOI: 10.1080/14763141.2022.2088399

Gillette, J., Saadat, S., & Butler, T. (2022). Electromyography-based fatigue assessment of an upper body exoskeleton during automotive assembly. Wearable Technologies, 3, E23. doi:10.1017/wtc.2022.20

E Drake *, E Fox *, J Howard * and S Saadat (2025). Can Neurocognitive Test Scores Predict ACL Injury Risk? A Transition from MATLAB to Python and a Regression Analysis. In abstracts of 28th annual meeting of MathFest.  

S Saadat, KM Bricarell and JC Gillette (2024). Single vs. Double Leg Landing and Reactive vs. Pre-Planned Jumping Increases ACL Injury Risk Factors. In abstracts of 71st annual meeting of American College of Sports Medicine.   

S Saadat and JC Gillette (2022). Dual tasking may increase ACL injury risk by decreasing knee flexion angle during jump landing. In abstracts of 69th annual meeting of American College of Sports Medicine.  

JC Gillette, T Butler and S Saadat (2021). Upper body exoskeleton benchmark and assessment best practices. In abstracts of WearRAcon Europe 21 Virtual European Exoskeleton Conference.   

JC Gillette, S Saadat and T Butler (2021). Upper body exoskeleton assessment during construction in the Alaska Whittier tunnel.  In abstracts of 45th annual meeting of American Society of Biomechanics.

S Saadat, ML Stephenson and JC Gillette (2021). Entry angle for jump-land-jump movements impacts ACL injury risk factors. In abstracts of 45th annual meeting of American Society of Biomechanics.  

JC Gillette, S Saadat, and T Butler (2020). Exoskeleton usage, arm posture and tool weight changes shoulder fatigue risk. In abstracts of 44th annual meeting of American Society of Biomechanics.

S Saadat, ML Stephenson and JC Gillette (2019). Altering entry angles in a jump landing task modifies biomechanical risk factors of ACL injury. In Abstracts of 37th annual meeting of International Society of Biomechanics in Sports.

Iowa State University Teaching Excellence Award | 2020