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I'm a PhD student at the Sensorimotor Neuroscience and Biorobotics Lab in Erasmuc MC (Rotterdam). My work focuses on human movement through the lens of robotics, biomechanics, and neuroscience. Before doing my PhD I studied Mechanical Engineering at TU Delft, where we designed a wheelchair that could be pushed from the side.
News
- 2025-10-22 — Daphne Onderwater has successfully defended her MSc thesis on how age affects balance and energy expenditure during walking, congratulations!
- 2025-10-01 — Conference: Patrick Forbes and I will present our study on reversed postural control at the Unconventional Robots Symposium (TU Delft, Oct 1)
- 2025-09-20 — Launched this website to share updates on projects. Welcome.
- 2025-09-19 — New Preprint: The energetic cost of human standing balance and gait initiation over a range of natural postures
- 2025-09-12 — Participants wanted for study on reversed balance control [Data collection completed]
Featured Projects
Age-dependent vestibular contributions to energy expenditure in treadmill and overground walking
Our reliance on vestibular input changes as we age; could this explain energetic differences across age in the metabolic cost of walking on a treadmill as compared to overground?
Energetic optimality of standing and gait initiation
Experimental and musculoskeletal modeling study on the energetic costs that drive standing and gait intitiation.