Susan H. Williams

I received my PhD from Duke University in 2004 and immediately joined the faculty at Ohio University, where I was promoted to Professor in 2012. Over the course of my career, I have blended comparative and clinically-oriented experimental research to understand patterns and principles underlying motor control and sensorimotor integration as it relates to mammalian feeding. While I am very interested in the feeding process from neurophysiological and biomechanical perspectives, this interest is also driven by a desire to understand anatomy and morphology and their impact on function. My research has been consistently supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), but i am most proud of the awards that I have received for mentoring students, including most recently the 2020 Ohio University Outstanding Graduate Faculty award, and the 2019 and 2020 Outstanding Honors Tutorial Thesis Mentor Awards. I was also the recipient of the 2020 Presidential Research Scholar award and named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2022. I am active in several research societies, including the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology and am a standing member on the NIH Motor Function, Speech, and Rehabilitation Study Section.