Nachiappan Chockalingam is the Director of Centre for Biomechanics and Rehabilitation Technologies at Staffordshire University and a Professor of Clinical Biomechanics within the School of Life Sciences and Education.

He is a Fellow of Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. He is also an Affiliate Professor at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta and a Visiting Professor at Sri Ramachandra University, India. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered Scientist and a member of various professional organisations, who have been elected to the executive board in some of these international societies. His research interests span the general area of biomechanics and gait analysis with a special interest in Spine/ Scoliosis, foot and footwear biomechanics. 

Nachi is one of the Research Editors for Scoliosis, Associate Editors for Footwear Science and serves as the senior editorial board member for a number of other international journals, including Prosthetics and Orthotics International and the Foot.

He also reviews for several international grant funding bodies and professional/ scientific journals.