Anne Koelewijn is a junior professor at the Chair of Autonomous Systems and Mechatronics at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), where she leads the Biomechanical Motion Analysis and Creation (BioMAC) group. Her group researches human movement and control using optimal control simulations, machine learning, and experiments inside and outside of the lab. The group’s aim is to help people reach their best possible performance, both athletes and persons with a disability or disease affecting their mobility. Anne Koelewijn holds a bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering (2011) and a master’s degree in mechanical engineering (2014) from Delft University of Technology. She received a Doctor of Engineering degree in mechanical engineering from Cleveland State University, OH, USA in 2018, for her research on predictive simulations and their application in gait of persons with a transtibial amputation. After finishing her doctoral studies, she was a postdoc in the Biorobotics Laboratory at EPFL in Switzerland for 1 year, where she researched neuromuscular control of standing and walking. 

Robert Riener is a full Professor at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology His current research focuses on the areas of human movement synthesis, biomechanics, virtual reality, human-machine interaction, and rehabilitation robotics. 

Firooz Salami holds a PhD in biomedical engineering from Polytechnic of Milan, Italy, and is currently a researcher at the Motion Analysis Lab in Orthopedic Clinic in Heidelberg University. His interests include musculoskeletal modeling, motion analysis, gait biomechanics and employing machine learning in gait analysis. His recent study focused on developing a functional foot model for clinical use 

Matthias Hösl (Pubmed, Linkedin, ResearchGate) has been head of the gait and movement analysis laboratory at Schön Klinik Vogtareuth  since 2019. The Hospital belongs to the Schön Klinik Group a large family-owned company in the German hospital sector, with around 13,600 employees. He initially studied sports science at the Technical University of Munich (2003-2009) and then completed his research master's degree at the VU Amsterdam (2009-2011) in Clinical Movement science, including a project with Jaap Harlaar and Han Houdijk. From 2011-2017 he worked at the paediatric orthopaedic clinic in Aschau. During this time, he also researched the musculature of children with Cerebral Palsy as part of his PhD at the Humboldt University of Berlin with Diamantis Arampatzis. After 2 years in the group of Klaus Jahn and Friedemann Müller at the Schön Klinik Bad Aibling (2017-2019), and specialising in the neuro-rehabilitation of adults, he took over the laboratory management in Vogtareuth in 2019. His clinical focus currently is gait diagnostic of children and adults with underlying orthopaedic, neuro-orthopaedic or neurological conditions. Within the Schön Klinik Vogtareuth, he cooperates in particular with the specialist centres for paediatric orthopaedics, neuro-orthopaedics and deformity reconstruction, for paediatric neurology, neuro-rehabilitation and epileptology and for neurosurgery, epilepsy surgery, spinal surgery and scoliosis. Matthias Hösl also is a board member of GAMMA, a society that focuses on the application of clinical movement analysis in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. 

Daniel Heitzmann

Friedl De Groote is an associate professor at the Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium. Her research goal is (1) to gain more insight into how the musculoskeletal system and central nervous system interact during movement and (2) to use these insights to design interventions to improve movement. Her focus is on standing and walking - including the control of balance during these activities - in healthy people, in aging and in neurological disorders. Interventions include clinical decision-making in children with cerebral palsy (CP), targeted balance training, and design of robotic devices such as exoskeletons and prostheses and their controls. Her unique approach is to combine computer simulations with experimental observations. Key to this approach is the development of computer methods to simulate human movement and to create personalized neuro-musculoskeletal models.