The appointment is effective per September 1, 2025.
Professor Dominici commented to her appointment that “I am truly honoured by this appointment. It is a wonderful recognition of my team’s research on how children develop motor abilities, such as learning to walk, and how these principles of neuromotor control extend across the human lifespan. I look forward to continuing this journey together with colleagues and students at VU.”
Professor Dominici’s research investigates the development and control of human movement, with a particular focus on walking, balance, and postural stability. By combining advanced recordings of movement, muscle activity and brain activity, she has pioneered insights into how spinal and cortical mechanisms interact during the emergence of locomotion in infants.
Through her BabyGaitLab, professor Dominici has established a unique environment for studying these processes, enabling simultaneous kinematics, EMG and EEG recordings in infants and young children, and extending this approach to adults to better understand the neural mechanisms underlying locomotion and balance. With this chair, she aims to strengthen interdisciplinary collaborations and to further advance innovative methodologies. She also plans to further develop educational programmes that inspire and prepare the next generation of scientists in the human movement sciences.
Professor Dominici and a child during experiments at the BabyGaitLab
Source: FGB Newsletter.