Dr. Elizabeth (Liz) Dimbath is a biomechanical engineer at Engineering Systems Inc. (ESi) in the North Carolina office. Dr. Dimbath has related expertise in spinal and pulmonary biomechanics, injury risk development, computational modeling, statistical analysis, and biomechanical testing (cadaver and animal).
Prior to joining the team at ESi, Dr. Dimbath earned her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University while conducting research in the Injury Biomechanics Laboratory. Her doctoral research focused on lumbar spine mechanics due to repeated loading and recovery, lumbar spine injury risk, and characterization of lumbar spine mechanical properties in loading and recovery. She also holds an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from East Carolina University, where she developed computational models to predict lung tissue damage.
Dr. Dimbath has presented her research at international conferences and is published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and conference proceedings, including Annals of Biomedical Engineering and the International Research Council on Biomechanics of Injury (IRCOBI).
Areas of Expertise
Publications
- Cyclic Mechanism Affects Lumbar Spine Creep Response, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, January 2026
- Biofidelity and Limitations of Instrumented Mouthguard Systems for Assessment of Rigid Body Head Kinematics, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, January 2024
- Accuracy of Instrumented Mouthguards During Direct Jaw Impacts Seen in Boxing, Annals of Biomedical Engineering 52, 3219–3227, January 2024
- Primary Creep Characterization in Porcine Lumbar Spine Subject to Repeated Loading, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, January 2024
- Human and Porcine Lumbar Endplate Injury Risk in Repeated Flexion-Compression, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, January 2024
- Comparing The Mesoscale and Microscale Mechanical Properties of Rat Lung Tissue Using Computational Modeling, Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology, 23 (07), January 2023
- Digital twins for understanding the mechanical adaptation of bone in disease and post-surgery, In Digital Human Modeling: The Digital Twin. Elsevier, January 2023
- Towards a multi-scale computer modeling workflow for simulation of pulmonary ventilation in advanced COVID-19, Computers in biology and medicine, 145, 105513, January 2022
- Implications of microscale lung damage for COVID-19 pulmonary ventilation dynamics: A narrative review, Life Sciences, 274, 119341, January 2021
- 3D printing of an interpenetrating network hydrogel material with tunable viscoelastic properties, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 70, 84–94, January 2017
See CV for additional publications.