![Katherine Wilkinson, professor of biology.](https://blogs.sjsu.edu/experts/files/2022/09/Katherine_Wilkinson_studio_portrait_20220831-230-0027_Katherine_Wilkinson_studio_portrait_RCBain.jpg)
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Chair of the American Physiological Society’s Science Policy Committee. (Photo by Robert C. Bain/San José State University)
Katherine Wilkinson is a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences. She runs a neurophysiology research lab focused on understanding how your body senses muscle movement, a sense essential for normal movement and balance, which is perturbed in many diseases. Wilkinson holds a doctoral degree in biomedical sciences from the University of California, San Diego. She is also the current chair of the American Physiological Society’s Science Policy Committee.
Email: katherine.wilkinson@sjsu.edu
Phone: 408-924-4916