team

Anouck Matthijs investigates the role of the cerebellum in age-related deficits in motor control (co-promotor is Dante Mantini)
Anda de Witte investigates the role of the cerebellum in age-related deficits in motor control (co-promotor is Jolien Gooiers
Frea Deroost works on the effect of aging on bike ability. Co-promotor is Friedl De Groote
Jef Leplae works on the effect of aging on bike ability. Co-promotor is Friedl De Groote
Charlotte Heremans focuses on improving sensorimotor impairments in stroke patients withing the ROBUST project (main promotor is Geert Verheyden)
Ilaria Carrara investigates the effect of aging on proprioception. Her co-promotor is An De Groef
Danny Koumans investigates the effect of chemotherapy on sensorimotor function. His co-promotor is An De Groef.
Tim Maurissens the influence of Parkinson’s disease on biking abilities. His main promotor is Moran Gilat. This is an add-on to the bike project (Maestro)
Siqi Yang investigates the changes in brain function with sensory processing using fNIRS. Her main promotor is Geert Verheyden. This is an add-on to the Robust project.
Stien Van De Plas investigates the effect of aging on proprioception.

Silke Kerstens focuses on the understanding of the mechanisms of tDCS (co-promotor is Myles Mc Laughlin)
Britt Vandendoorent looked into the effect of tDCS on sensorimotor control in Parkinson’s Disease (main promotor is Alice Nieuwboer)
Matheus Maia Pacheco worked on the effect of reward on motor adaptation. He also used EEG to understand the neural substrate of motor adaptation. Collaboration with Dante Mantini
Mareike Gann investigated motor memory consolidation with TMS and fMRI (main promotor is Genevieve Albouy)
Manasa Parthasharathy worked on the use of EEG to quantify age-related deficits in sensorimotor control (main promotor is Dante Mantini)
Guy Rens worked on action observation in the context of object prehension.
Koen Vandevoorde was the first PhD student of the Lab. He worked on the impact of aging on motor adaptation.
Veerle De Rond used fNIRS to study weight shifting in young and elderly participants (main promotor is Alice Nieuwboer)
Leen Saenen developped new techniques to quantify sensorimotor impairments in stroke patients (main promotor is Geert Verheyden)
Pauline Hermans investigated the effect of aging, Parkinson’s Disease and reward on motor adaptation (co-promotor is Alice Nieuwboer)