Prof. Vanwanseele is a full professor and the head of the Human Movement Biomechanics research group at the Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven. She is also the director of the Leuven Institute of Sports Science. She is an international recognized expert in muscle and tendon biomechanics covering highly specialized biomechanical modelling techniques including musculoskeletal modelling and finite element modelling, with medical imaging. She has published more than 100 full papers in peer-reviewed international journal, attracted research grants, supervised 15 PhD students to completion and is currently supervising 10 PhD students. She has presented her research at several national and international conferences.

Prof. Vanwanseele focuses her research on developing insights and innovative methodologies to achieve personalized rehabilitation and training regimes to enable each of us to perform optimally. Prof. Vanwanseele is also involved in the implementation of evidence-based methods to improve training programs for elite athletes such as the Belgian national hockey team and is the co-founder of a Spin-off company RunEasi. 

Thor is a Professor at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute and has a joint appointment with the Department of Engineering Science & Biomedical Engineering at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Thor’s research combines medical imaging with computational modelling to understand mechanisms of musculoskeletal injury and disease. Current projects focus on technology to assist people with neurological disorders and the use of models and wearable sensors in orthopaedics. He has published 156 journal papers on these topics and spun-out two companies from his research, including IMeasureU (inertial sensing for human movement) and FormusLabs (orthopaedic pre-operative planning).