dr. Nadia Dominici

Full Professor, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Neurocontrol

Full Professor, IBBA

Full Professor, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, AMS - Rehabilitation & Development

Personal information

Current position

Full Professor in "NeuroMotor Control and Development” at the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Department of Human Movement Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Main research interests: Advanced Statistical Analysis of Motor Patterns and Kinematics in children and adult humans and in animals, including Factor and Principal Component Analysis; Neural Control of Human Locomotion; Human Motor Pattern Development; Proprioceptive Control of Human Locomotion and Gravitational Physiology, Experimental Neurorehabilitation of rats; Motor Control, Biomechanics.

Education

2003–2006: Ph.D. in Neuroscience University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy Advisors: Dr. Y. Ivanenko, Prof. F. Lacquaniti
2001: ”Diploma di Laurea” in Physics University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy Advisor: Prof. M. Bonori

Prizes and Awards

2013: Suzanne Klein-Vogelbach -Prize for the Research of Human Movement (Dominici et al. Science 2011)
2013: IgNobel Prize in Physics ”or discovering that some people would be physically capable of running across the surface of a pond? if those people and that pond were on the moon”. (Minetti et al. PLoS One 2012)
2007: Travel Fellowship for 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM), Sevilla, Spain.

Grants

2024-2027 Co-PI, Horizon-HERITAGE: META-MUSEUM
2023-2026 Co-Promotor in charge, Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO): PhD Fellowship Fundamental Research
2021-2022 PI, Grant Johanna Kinderfonds for Research in Children with Cerebral Palsy for postdoc position
2017-2022 PI, ERC Starting Grant: Learn2Walk. Brain meets spine: the neural origin of toddlers' first steps
2015-2020 PI, NWO Aspasia Grant (liked to the NWO Vidi Grant)
2015-2020 PI, NWO Vidi Grant: FirSteps: the emergence of walking in children