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Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Ingrid Kouwijzer is a post-doc researcher at the Department of Human Movement Sciences, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After her study Medicine she worked as a physician for two years before she decided to study Human Movement Sciences. After her graduation, she started her PhD-project entitled ‘HandbikeBattle: a challenging handcycling event. A study on physical capacity testing, handcycle training and effects of participation’. At the moment she continues doing research as a post-doc researcher in the HandbikeBattle FIT2FIT project and works as an international classifier for paracycling. Dr. Kouwijzer’s research interests are spinal cord injury, exercise physiology, rehabilitation and adapted sports.