Advisory Board and Editors Rehabilitation
Jaap H van Dieën
Jaap van Dieën worked as a researcher in physical ergonomics at the Institute for Agricultural Engineering in Wageningen, the Netherlands (1986 to 1996). He obtained a PhD from the Faculty of Human Movement Sciences at the VU University Amsterdam the Netherlands in 1993 and has been affiliated to this faculty since 1996. In 2002, he was appointed as full professor and became head of the department in 2016. Jaap van Dieën leads a research group focusing on the neuromechanics of human movement, with applications in ageing, musculoskeletal and movement disorders and sports. His research focuses on four themes:
1) Balance control: what determines good balance control, how we can assess balance control and fall risk, and how can balance control be improved?
2) Control of trunk posture and movement: how does trunk control change with disorders like low-back pain, and how can changes in trunk control be assessed clinically?
3) Spine mechanics and low-back pain: how can low-back loading be assessed, and how effective are ergonomic interventions in reducing low-back loading?
4) Measurement tools for biomechanical and neurophysiological assessment with a focus on applications outside the lab.
Jaap van Dieën has supervised over 50 PhD students and (co-) authored over 500 papers in international scientific journals. He is currently the editor of the Biomechanics and Control of Human Movement section of Frontiers in Sports and Active Living and serves on several editorial boards.
Marcus Fraga Vieira
Prof. Marcus Vieira is the Bioengineering and Biomechanics Laboratory head at Universidade Federal de Goiás. He received BS in Electrical Engineering and Physical Education from the Universidade Federal de Goiás, and MSc and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the Universidade de São Paulo. He focuses his research in computational neuroscience and biomechanics, especially in motoneuron modeling, spinal CPG, nonlinear tools for movement variability analysis, including entropy, fractal dimension and recurrence analysis, coherence analysis in postural control, transitory tasks such as gait initiation, and gait dynamic stability.
Songning Zhang
Songning Zhang (PhD & FACSM) is a professor of biomechanics and the director of the Biomechanics/Sports Medicine Laboratory at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is a fellow of American College of Sports Medicine and a member of American Society of Biomechanics, International Society of Biomechanics, and China Sport Science Society. He is a visiting professor at the Shanghai University of Sports and at the Nanjing Sports Institute, China. His publications include work appearing in biomechanics, sports science, medical journals, and book chapters. He is currently an associate editor and editorial board member for Journal of Sport and Health Science, and an associate editor for Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, and an editorial board member of PeerJ. He has reviewed manuscripts for many academic peer-reviewed journals, including the Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise; Journal of Biomechanics, Gait and Posture, Clinical Biomechanics, Arthritis Care & Research, etc.
Li Zuo
Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (FACSM) at The Ohio State University, College of Medicine.