Kim Hébert-Losier is an associate professor in Applied Biomechanics (clinical and sport) with over 135 peer-reviewed publications. She is the lead biomechanics researcher at the University of Waikato Adams Centre for High Performance and a Senior Academic for the Division of Health in Tauranga. She has worked as a musculoskeletal physiotherapist in Canada and have acquired vast international postdoctoral training in biomechanics and sports (New Zealand, Sweden, USA, Malaysia).

Her research and academic leadership bridge physiotherapy and sports biomechanics. Her research has global recognition in the areas of running and footwear, ACL injury prevention, and calf muscle function. She is especially proud to have developed the free-to-use Calf Raise mobile application (over 30,000 downloads) to help clinicians and researchers better quantify heel-rise test outcomes.