😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Zhang et al. show that landing with foot abduction and initial lateral heel contact realigns force vectors, reducing knee joint loading. It promotes a shift from single-joint control to a multi-joint kinetic-chain synergy. 👀https://buff.ly/k7pXizM

I'll be teaching in a 2-day course at #GhentUniversity: From #EMG signals to #musclesynergies: Theory, methodology, and R workflows Open to PhD candidates, researchers, professionals. With @musclesynergies.bsky.social hands-on! 7-8 Sept 2026 Free, limited seats event.ugent.be/registration...

I am currently recruiting a PhD student to work on our "Motor complexity and aging" project funded by the @fwovlaanderen.bsky.social www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

We are hiring a POSTDOC on an NIH award to measure inertial effects of (in)active muscle. Please share and re-post widely! Please send expressions of interest to my UML email.

My university is offering scholarships for PhD students to visit Nantes (France) for 3 to 6 months. If you are interested in joining my lab to work on the neural control of the hand during artistic activities and translating these insights into robotic control please do not hesitate to get in touch!

New grant, new openings coming up… www.ru.nl/en/about-us/...

There are a couple of weeks left to apply! I just heard that we can also accept PhD students with a suitable background, so extending the call to those as well. #biomech_sky

New preprint; Shared feedback control principles across standing and walking. With Yang Geng and @jvandieen.bsky.social. Feedback welcome! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Postdoc (and PhD) opportunity in my lab. www.linkedin.com/posts/matthi...

The Nishikawa lab at Northern Arizona University and the NSF-funded Integrative Movement Sciences Institute are hiring a postdoc to help develop multiscale muscle models - please apply and share widely! careers.nau.edu/cw/en-us/job...

My research group has an open position for a postdoc! Interested in investigating the postural transition towards mammalian gait using movement simulations? We might have the right position for you! More details and application info here: www.asm.tf.fau.de/en/2025/11/1...

Nice 3-year teaching+research postdoc at NYIT! careers-nyit.icims.com/jobs/4126/po... The human anatomy teaching experience is tremendously valuable; for people in our fields (e.g., morphology, biomechanics, palaeontology) it opens up great faculty job opportunities! And the NYIT faculty are great.

🚨🚨 We're hiring !! Looking for postdoc? Come work in an international, collaborative and stimulating environment on mechanisms of human upper limb motor control 👇👇👇 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/386645

🔬 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴! I’m recruiting a postdoctoral researcher (@mdc-berlin.bsky.social, Berlin 🇩🇪, @niccolozampieri.bsky.social lab) for my @dfg.de -funded project on somatosensory feedback and locomotor control. Please repost and DM me if interested! #locomotion #proprioception #neuromechanics

Amazing #TMS #job opportunity alert! #PostDoc #BrainStim #Parkinsons #Movement 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Brand new POSTDOC opportunity in my lab (!!) will help lead a multi-institutional collaboration designed to enhance understanding of anatomic variability in Achilles tendinopathy toward more effective, personalized clinical interventions. Learn more and apply: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

We’re hiring a postdoctoral associate in Biomechanics @UNOmaha! Focus: gait training for stroke survivors. Lab and/or field studies, collaboration with experts at the universty and medical center. PhD in PT, biomechanics, biomed eng, or related. 👉 biomch-l.isbweb.org/forum/biomch...

Please repost! We have an open rank, tenure-line faculty position in biomechanics in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. At U-M we have great colleagues, exceptional resources, and biomechanics can be found all across the campus. #BiomechSky

Please repost. The School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan is seeking applications and nominations for our next Dean! Click the "leadership profile" link on the careers page below for full details. And Go Blue!

The CEDE website is now up and running. Designing an experiment using EMG? Then check out this website and try the decision support tool: cede.isek.org

As promised - our new post-doc position is now available!! Join our productive inter-institutional team at UNC-Chapel Hill in an ongoing NIH-funded project collaborating with friends at Utah (reporter.nih.gov/search/nC8k4...) Apply now (Active until filled!): unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/304...

New job vacancy! Joint PhD: Prevent Falls with Augmented Reality (FallAR) at Maastricht & Hasselt Universities vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric... with me, @melvynroerdink.bsky.social Pieter Meyns & @kennethmeijer.bsky.social @ispgr.bsky.social @worldfallssociety.bsky.social

Please repost! We're hiring a postdoc to work with me and @salagapan.bsky.social on an exciting interdisciplinary project in human neuroscience and brain-body interactions underlying effortful behavior in health and mood disorders. siplab.gatech.edu/postdoc_ad_2...

Postdoctoral Fellowship Opening!📣 The Sensorimotor Learning Lab is seeking a Postdoc to join us in Fall 2025! Under the direction of @amandastherrien.bsky.social, the fellow will investigate the mechanisms of sensory plasticity in adaptive motor learning. Link to learn more and apply⬇️

We're hiring! Heath Henninger and I are hiring a research engineer to support two new new grants. Responsibilities will include developing new devices for gait perturbations and supporting biomechanical data collections. Apply here: utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/185...

This October, the fifth Motor Impairment Conference will take place in Amsterdam. We have an excellent list of invited speakers on various domains of motor impairment and cordially invite you to join. Abstract submission deadline is August 8th. For details see: motorimpairment.org.

New preprint by Yiyuan Li, with @jvandieen.bsky.social and others; The contribution of vestibular and proprioceptive signals to trunk stabilization varies between postural tasks and between walking speeds. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... feedback welcome!

And another preprint, this one from our STEPUP consortium: "Foot placement coordination is impaired in people with Parkinson’s Disease". Too many authors to tag! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... feedback welcome!

We are recruiting a PhD student to join our team and contribute to research on neuromotor interfaces for motor augmentation and recovery in both healthy individuals and patients. The application deadline is approaching soon! amethis.doctorat.org/amethis-clie... Collab with @francoishug.bsky.social

New preprint with Yaqi Li, Eugenie Lambrecht and @jvandieen.bsky.social; www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/... Suggestions and feedback welcome! #BiomechSky

We are recruiting a postdoc for an exciting multi-disciplinary project that explores the use of quantum sensors to measure muscle behaviour - looking for someone with skills in ultrasound, mocap, and EMG - funded by QLD Government's Quantum 2032 Challenge uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...

@mrmahaki.bsky.social @smbruijn.bsky.social @jvandieen.bsky.social and I are the main scientists behind LesSchuh. Do you want to help us take LesSchuh to the next level? Check out the post below :)

We're hiring! The University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) welcomes a talented researcher for the position of Assistant Professor to become part of our expertise network on lifestyle and prevention to connect the domains of human movement, nutrition and mental health. shorturl.at/ZARLG

Please share! Full-time sports science role working with Olympic sports. Hiring is on a quick timeline so apply soon. @jobsinsportscience.bsky.social tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TAMU_E...

Postdoc opportunity to do digital twin research for human and humanoid agile locomotion with myself, Wouter Hoogkamer @umill.bsky.social and Donghyun Kim! See forms.gle/FRFtLNiY7j3z... for more info and to apply by 3/19.

Shriners Children's in Spokane has an opening for a clinical motion analysis engineer: biomch-l.isbweb.org/forum/biomch...

If you are interested in a post-doc studying the neural control of movement in humans or NHPs, check out this program and get in touch soon! www.uwo.ca/research/fun...

Come to Amsterdam this fall (Oct 8-10) for the International Motor Impairment Conference!

Interested in #Functional #Morphology and imaging? Looking to apply for a Postdoctoral Fellowship? We have an opening at the FunMorph/DynX Lab at the University of Antwerp. If you do not have a project idea but are interested, I have some for you (contact me)! www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

I'm looking for postdocs who'd like to apply for the @connectedminds.bsky.social PDFs with me and collaborators to work on the following potential projects: 1. explainable neuroAI for ANN / SNN models of motor control 2. neuromorphic robotic control 3. neurorobotic artistic performance ... /1

Attention Motor Impairment Researchers and Clinicians! Registration and abstract submission for the International Motor Impairment Conference 2025 are now open. Visit our website and find our confirmed speakers, Abstract Submission & Early bird registration: motorimpairment.org

We have just published this pre-print. doi: doi.org/10.1101/2025.... We show that linear and angular momentum are both controlled during bipedal walking. This study resulted from discussions we had on the use of foot placement to stabilise gait. Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Just in time for your Christmas reading list: new preprint with Yang Geng and @jvandieen.bsky.social: “ Upright stance is controlled close to critical stability across different postures” (www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...) feedback welcome!

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join the META MUSEUM project: Emotion and Biomarkers. This interdisciplinary project focuses on understanding emotion-induced bodily and neurophysiological biomarkers through experimental interventions. werkenbij.vu.nl/vacatures/po...

Finishing the year in style with a job alert! 📢 I am seeking for a talented postdoctoral researcher/researcher to join my Neuromechanics group at UNSW. This is a 2-year full-time position focusing on predictive musculoskeletal simulations (1/3) 👇

UoM are recruiting a Research Associate (10.5 months maternity cover, full time) to work on the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) in Manchester. More details about the job and how to apply can be found here www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

#biomechanics job at University of Toronto! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

A great lab and mentors are hiring postdocs to study robotic exoskeletons for stroke rehab!!

We're hiring a postdoc to work on several projects related to balance control and concussion! Please spread the word! tinyurl.com/bdz9tnat

🆕 Open calls for postdoctoral fellowships at Université Côte d'Azur (Nice, France) ☀️ 🌴! If you completed your PhD within the last four years and have a passion for the neural control of movement, I encourage you to apply to join my research team at LAMHESS 👉 urlr.me/5VByYA