Motor Control and Biorobotics Research
I'm a PhD student at the Sensorimotor Neuroscience and Biorobotics Lab in Erasmuc MC (Rotterdam). My work focuses on human movement and learning 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
- 2026-04-13 — The first edition of the NeuroRobotics course for the MSc Neuroscience Erasmus MC starts on April 13.
- 2026-02-26 — New Publication: Cortical responses to balance perturbations persist without active postural control (The Journal of Physiology)
- 2026-01-09 — New Preprint: Cortical responses to balance perturbations persist without active postural control
- 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)
Featured Projects
Cortical responses to balance perturbations persist without active postural control
Do cortical balance responses, such as the Balance N1, really depend on balance?
Learning reversed postural control
Can humans relearn (and unlearn) how to stand when we completely reverse their control over balancing movement?
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?