Prof. Dr. Gert Kwakkel

Prof. dr. Gert Kwakkel received a chair ‘Neurorehabilitation’ at the Amsterdam University Medical Centre in Amsterdam in 2008. His chair is dedicated to translational research in the field of neurorehabilitation with special focus on the longitudinal relationship between brain plasticity and motor recovery early post stroke.
He published more than 321 papers reflecting more than 30.000 citations in the field of stroke rehabilitation (H-Index 80 following Web of Science). Professor Kwakkel is acknowledged as one of the TOP researchers at the VU University medical Centre in Amsterdam after receiving an advanced ERC laureate together with Professor Dr. van der Helm of the European Commission in 2011. Since June 2015, Gert Kwakkel became visiting professor at the department physical therapy and human movement sciences of the Feinberg School of Medicine at the Northwestern University of Chicago, USA. In 2018, he received an honorary fellowship from the Associated Physiotherapists in Neurology (ACPIN) in Manchester (UK), the Outstanding Neurorehabilitation Clinician Scientists (ONCS) Award from the American Society of Neurorehabilitation in San Diego (USA). In 2021, he received an honored designation of a classroom that was entitled with his name at the institute Health at the Zürich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) in Winterthur in Swiss. Finally, in December 2024, he received the Princess Margaret Memorial Award at the UK SStroke Forum which is a lifetime achievement award for his work in the field of stroke.
Currently, professor Kwakkel is handling editor of the editorial board of Stroke and European editor of Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair.