Invited Speakers
Queen's University and CSB-SCB are excited to announce Nikolaus F. Troje and Idsart Kingma as keynote speakers at the 16th biannual meeting.
Department of Psychology and School of Computing
Queen's University, Kingston, ON
Invited Talk: Gait analysis in the brain: What the visual system knows about biomechanics.
Bio: Niko Troje received his PhD in Biology from the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany, in 1994. Subsequently, he taught at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen and later at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany. In 2003, he joined Queen's University as a Canada Research Chair in Vision and Behavioural Sciences. He is a Full Professor in the Department of Psychology with a cross-appointment in the School of Computing at Queen’s and an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Vision Research at York University. At Queen’s he is the director of the BioMotion Lab. Dr. Troje has received several prestigious awards, both in Germany and in Canada and is currently holding a NSERC Steacie Fellowship. His main research interest is focused on questions concerning the Biology and Psychology of visual perception in social relevant contexts. He has been working for many years on human face recognition. Currently, most of the projects in his lab are concerned with visual information processing involved in the recognition of biological motion, particularly the recognition of human gait.
Faculty of Human Movement Sciences
VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Invited Talk: Recent Advances in Lifting Biomechanics
Bio: Idsart Kingma received his PhD in Human Movement Sciences in 1998 from the VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Currently he is associate professor at the faculty of Human Movement Sciences of the VU University, where he serves as a member of the faculty board, and he teaches courses on mechanics of human movement, measurement techniques, and pathology of human movement. His main research interest is occupational biomechanics, with a specific focus on the low back. He has (co) authored over 75 papers in international journals. About half of these papers concern spine loading and lifting. Furthermore, he is supervisor of four PhD students. Some of his current research targets are to bring lab-quality lifting biomechanics to the field and to unravel the complex interaction effects on low back loading between lifting task and lifting behavior.