Maarten Afschrift

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Maarten Afschrift is a leading researcher in the field of human balance control and sensorimotor neuroscience. His work focuses on understanding how the human nervous system transforms sensory information into motor commands to maintain stability during both standing and walking. Afschrift’s major contribution lies in demonstrating that similar sensorimotor transformations govern balance across these different tasks, revealing that the brain uses task-level feedback of the body’s center of mass to coordinate muscle activity. This insight has profound implications for designing more human-like balance controllers for wearable exoskeletons and bipedal robots. His highly cited 2021 paper (48 citations) on this topic is a cornerstone in the field, while his 2020 investigation into momentum-based control strategies (19 citations) directly bridges neuroscience and robotics, exploring how well computational models can predict human recovery from perturbations. By combining rigorous experimental work with computational modeling, Afschrift is shaping our understanding of human motor control and advancing the development of assistive technologies that can seamlessly interact with and support human movement.