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Michael Günther

Michael Günther

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
40
Citations
6303
World Ranking
7337
National Ranking
250

Overview

Michael Günther is affiliated with the University of Stuttgart in Germany. Their research intersects primarily the fields of Medicine and Engineering, with a focused expertise in Biomedical Engineering and related subfields. The scholar's work frequently addresses topics such as Muscle activation and electromyography studies, Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies, and Prosthetics and Rehabilitation Robotics.

The research output spans various recent papers, reflecting interdisciplinary approaches in biomechanics, muscle physiology, and medical engineering applications. Notable publications include:

  • The influence of hip muscle strength on gait in individuals with a unilateral transfemoral amputation, 2020, published in PLoS ONE
  • Loads distributed in vivo among vertebrae, muscles, spinal ligaments, and intervertebral discs in a passively flexed lumbar spine, 2020, in Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology
  • Muscle active force-length curve explained by an electrophysical model of interfilament spacing, 2022, in Biophysical Journal
  • Exhaustion of Skeletal Muscle Fibers Within Seconds: Incorporating Phosphate Kinetics Into a Hill-Type Model, 2020, in Frontiers in Physiology
  • Rethinking the physiological cross-sectional area of skeletal muscle reveals the mechanical advantage of pennation, 2024, in Royal Society Open Science

The scholar's work has been consistently published in venues such as Frontiers in Medicine, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), PLoS ONE, Royal Society Open Science, and Biophysical Journal. These outlets indicate a strong emphasis on open-access and multidisciplinary platforms in biomedical and modeling sciences.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Michael Günther include Robert Rockenfeller, Syn Schmitt, Falk Mörl, Daniel F. B. Haeufle, and Tobias Siebert, highlighting a collaborative network focused on biomechanical modeling, physiology, and biomedical engineering.

The research topics covered by Michael Günther extend into pandemic-related studies such as SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research, Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy, and COVID-19 epidemiological studies. This indicates an engagement with current public health challenges alongside core biomechanical and medical engineering investigations.

Additional subfields associated with the researcher's work include Infectious Diseases, Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Health, and Modeling and Simulation, illustrating a multidisciplinary approach within medicine and engineering contexts.

Best Publications

  • A movement criterion for running.

    Andre Seyfarth;Andre Seyfarth;Hartmut Geyer;Hartmut Geyer;Michael Günther;Reinhard Blickhan

  • Intelligence by mechanics.

    Reinhard Blickhan;Andre Seyfarth;Hartmut Geyer;Sten Grimmer

  • Joint stiffness of the ankle and the knee in running

    Michael Günther;Reinhard Blickhan

  • Hill-type muscle model with serial damping and eccentric force-velocity relation.

    D.F.B. Haeufle;M. Günther;M. Günther;A. Bayer;S. Schmitt

  • The mechanical effectiveness of erect and "bent-hip, bent-knee" bipedal walking in Australopithecus afarensis.

    R. H. Crompton;Li Yu;Wang Weijie;M. Günther

  • Dimensions and moment arms of the hind‐ and forelimb muscles of common chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

    Susannah K.S. Thorpe;Robin H. Crompton;Michael M. Günther;Robert F. Ker

  • Stable operation of an elastic three-segment leg.

    André Seyfarth;Michael Günther;Reinhard Blickhan

  • Synthesis of two-dimensional human walking: a test of the λ-model

    Michael Günther;Hanns Ruder

  • Running on uneven ground: leg adjustment to vertical steps and self-stability

    Sten Grimmer;Michael Ernst;Michael Günther;Michael Günther;Reinhard Blickhan

  • Free vertical moments and transverse forces in human walking and their role in relation to arm-swing.

    Yu Li;Weijie Wang;Robin H. Crompton;Michael M. Gunther

  • Morphological analysis of the hindlimb in apes and humans. I. Muscle architecture

    R C Payne;R H Crompton;K Isler;R Savage

  • Dynamics of longitudinal arch support in relation to walking speed: contribution of the plantar aponeurosis

    Paolo Caravaggi;Todd Pataky;Michael Günther;Russell Savage

  • Biomechanics and Allometric Scaling in Primate Locomotion and Morphology

    Brigitte Demes;Michael M. Günther

  • A model-experiment comparison of system dynamics for human walking and running.

    Susanne W. Lipfert;Michael Günther;Michael Günther;Daniel Renjewski;Sten Grimmer

  • DEALING WITH SKIN MOTION AND WOBBLING MASSES IN INVERSE DYNAMICS

    Michael Günther;Michael Günther;Viktor A. Sholukha;Viktor A. Sholukha;Danny Kessler;Veit Wank;Veit Wank

  • Impulsive ankle push-off powers leg swing in human walking

    Susanne W. Lipfert;Michael Günther;Daniel Renjewski;Andre Seyfarth

  • High-frequency oscillations as a consequence of neglected serial damping in Hill-type muscle models

    Michael Günther;Syn Schmitt;Veit Wank

  • All leg joints contribute to quiet human stance: a mechanical analysis.

    Michael Günther;Michael Günther;Sten Grimmer;Tobias Siebert;Reinhard Blickhan

  • Segment inertial properties of primates: new techniques for laboratory and field studies of locomotion.

    R. H. Crompton;Y. Li;R. McN. Alexander;W. Wang

  • Comparison of inverse-dynamics musculo-skeletal models of AL 288-1 Australopithecus afarensis and KNM-WT 15000 Homo ergaster to modern humans, with implications for the evolution of bipedalism.

    Weijie Wang;Robin H. Crompton;Tanya S. Carey;Michael M. Günther

  • Morphological analysis of the hindlimb in apes and humans. I. Muscle architecture: Hindlimb anatomy in apes, R. C. Payne et al.

    R. C. Payne;R. H. Crompton;K. Isler;R. Savage

Frequent Co-Authors

Reinhard Blickhan
Reinhard Blickhan Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Andre Seyfarth
Andre Seyfarth Technical University of Darmstadt
R. McNeill Alexander
R. McNeill Alexander University of Leeds
Thomas Ertl
Thomas Ertl University of Stuttgart
Uwe Claussen
Uwe Claussen Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Wim Soetaert
Wim Soetaert Ghent University
Elwyn L. Simons
Elwyn L. Simons Duke University
Joan T. Richtsmeier
Joan T. Richtsmeier Pennsylvania State University
Shigemi Mori
Shigemi Mori National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Florence Babonneau
Florence Babonneau Sorbonne University

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