Thrilled to be in 🇯🇵 at NIFS Kanoya with to study the neuromechanics of sprinting 🏃‍♂️💨

A 52m force platform + kinematics + EMG = the perfect setup to explore sprint performance.

Thanks to a @WBIworld fellowship—great timing with the FNRS project starting soon! 🙌

Locomotion efficiency of elephants: mechanical work and energetics Highlighted Article: Despite their massive size, elephants achieve high locomotor efficiency, with limb swing accounting for up to 75% of total mechanical work, challenging assumptions about scaling i...

Also, congratulations to @arthurdewolf.bsky.social and colleagues for their brand new (more serious) paper looking at locomotor efficiency and mechanical work of elephants!

journals.biologists.com/jeb/article-...

Happy #WorldElephantDay! 🐘

For a conference paper, we found elephants walk & change gait at lower relative speeds than dynamic similarity predicts, hinting that in giant animals like dinosaurs 🦕, absolute speed & musculoskeletal limits matter more than scaling laws

hal.science/hal-05191706...

Good news: I’ve been awarded a postdoc grant from the FNRS! 🎉
Allowing me to continue working at UCLouvain, in collaboration with UMaastricht & KULeuven.

Grateful for the support — and still buzzing from an inspiring week at ECSS in Rimini!
#postdoc

Hi Felipe, should be Milan San Remo. So you're looking at the Italian coast between Savona and San Remo

www.castelli-cycling.com/BE/nl/storie...

Autonomous locomotion simply with tubes as limbs, and no brain? 🎈🤖

Yes, through physical synchronization! Our article is out today in Science (@science.org)

Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Authors: @albertocomoretto.bsky.social, H.A.H. Schomaker, J.T.B. Overvelde

More below 🧪 ⚛️
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Nice to see that this data is still being used! Being part of the other lab that took part in those experiments, our last paper on this was in 2020. We still use the same force plates!

Will be happy to read this research! Good luck!

Everyone is free to attend!

Also if you wish to attend online, let me know if you need a link!

I will be defending my thesis publicly on the 25th of March at 1730 (GMT+1)

It will be a comprehensive-to-all type of presentation of about 45 minutes on some of the projects we've worked with over the years! Including running against a wind, while turning or with altered step frequency!

Simultaneous stabilizing feedback control of linear and angular momentum in human walking Stabilizing bipedal gait is mechanically challenging. Previous studies have used the assumption that the linear momentum of the body center of mass (CoM) is controlled to analyze how gait is stabilize...

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.

Really nice conference at the 3D AHM, subgroup of the ISB, in Montevideo! Really impressive keynote speakers and great talks :)

On my way to Montevideo for some good end of year science! Looking forward to hearing some big speakers!

I'll also be presenting something about the upper and lower limb coordination in running with a change in step frequency.

The Effect of Step Frequency and Running Speed on the Coordination of the Pelvis and Thigh Segments During Running | Request PDF Request PDF | The Effect of Step Frequency and Running Speed on the Coordination of the Pelvis and Thigh Segments During Running | This study investigates the specific influence of step frequency (SF)...

New paper out! 📖 We looked at the coordination of the pelvis and thigh segments when running at high and low step frequencies by using modified vector coding.

Some nice results and a new collaboration 😊

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Now that Bluesky has native video support, I figured it's time for a repost: Teaching a biomechanical model to run using reinforcement learning.

New results coming soon! #BiomechSky

This week I had the chance to present classes in the electrophysiology of gait analysis for the EURON initiative 🧠 and an introductory class in the biomechanics of trail running 🏃‍♂️

Two integral parts of my research 😊