Prof. Dr. Eva Swinnen
E. Swinnen works as an assistant professor neurological rehabilitation and rehabilitation technology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Rehabilitation Research Group (RERE). She is author of more than 80 peer-reviewed publications and promoter of 3 finished and 11 ongoing PhDs. 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.
She is head of the Brubotics Rehabilitation Research Center (BRRC VUB; 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 VUB; https://rere.research.vub.be/). RERE brings together more than 50 researchers who aim to provide the best scientific evidence for rehabilitation strategies to improve one’s quality of life by optimizing physical functioning.
E. Swinnen 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. She 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 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/).