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Eva Swinnen (she/her/hers)

Prof. Dr.
Rehabilitation Research Group, faculty of physical education and physiotherapy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Brussel, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium

E. Swinnen works as an assistant professor (100% ZAP) neurological rehabilitation and rehabilitation technology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Rehabilitation Research Group (RERE). The focus of her research lies in the domain of neurological (gait) rehabilitation and rehabilitation technology (i.e. Virtual and Augmented reality, serious gaming, and robotics). She drives multi- and interdisciplinary collaborations and is the bridge between developers and clinicians when developing, creating and clinical testing of user-centered rehabilitation technologies. On one hand, her projects concentrate on the development of user-centered technologies and robotics for rehabilitation, while on the other hand, they focus on the clinical testing (biomechanical and functional) of prototypes and commercially available technologies.

She is author of more than 65 peer-reviewed publications. She teaches neurorehabilitation and rehabilitation technology in the rehabilitation sciences and physiotherapy education program (bachelor and master) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in the 2nd master interuniversity specialization program neurological rehabilitation and in the international Postgraduate program Rehabilitation & Humans Sustainable Technology (https://www.vub.be/nl/studeren-aan-de-vub/alle-opleidingen/bachelor-en-masteropleidingen-aan-de-vub/rehabilitation-human-sustainable-technology)

She is  head of the Brubotics Rehabilitation Research Center (BRRC, https://brrc.research.vub.be/, (a state-of-the-art movement analysis lab focusing on robotics and technology for rehabilitation), chair of the alliance research group ‘Rehabilitation-technology for people after a brain injury’ (REBI, collaboration VUB-UGent) and co-chair of the ‘Rehabilitation Research’ group (RERE; https://rere.research.vub.be/). E.  Swinnen  is part of the European Stroke Organisation (ESO) guideline working group motor/gait rehabilitation and member of the SIG ‘Telerehabilitation’ of the World Federation of Neurological Rehabilitation (WFNR). She is member of the Society of Movement Analysis Laboratories in the Low Lands (www.SMALLL.eu), board member (treasurer) of the  Belgium Society for Neurorehabilitation  (https://www.bsnr.org/), steering group member of the Brussels Human Robotics Research Center  (https://www.brubotics.eu/), and co-director of the Center for Neurosciences of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (https://c4n.research.vub.be/).

Disclosure(s): Hocoma: Speaker/Honoraria (Ongoing)

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