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Current position
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, Department of Human Movement Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Main research interests: Advanced Statistical Analysis of Motor Patterns and Kinematics in children and adult humans and in animals, including Factor and Principal Component Analysis; Neural Control of Human Locomotion; Human Motor Pattern Development; Proprioceptive Control of Human Locomotion and Gravitational Physiology, Experimental Neurorehabilitation of rats; Motor Control, Biomechanics.
Education
- 2003–2006: Ph.D. in Neuroscience University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy Advisors: Dr. Y. Ivanenko, Prof. F. Lacquaniti
- 2001: ”Diploma di Laurea” in Physics University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy Advisor: Prof. M. Bonori
Grants
- 2016 ERC Starting Grant: Learn2Walk. Brain meets spine: the neural origin of toddlers' first steps
- 2015 NWO Aspasia Grant (liked to the NWO Vidi Grant)
- 2015 NWO Vidi Grant: FirSteps: the emergence of walking in children
Prizes and Awards
- 2013: Suzanne Klein-Vogelbach -Prize for the Research of Human Movement (Dominici et al. Science 2011)
- 2013: IgNobel Prize in Physics ”or discovering that some people would be physically capable of running across the surface of a pond? if those people and that pond were on the moon”. (Minetti et al. PLoS One 2012)
- 2007: Travel Fellowship for 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement (NCM), Sevilla, Spain.
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Research Output 2004 2019
Modular control in children with cerebral palsy during the development of walking
Bekius, A., Zandvoort, C., Kerkman, J., Daffertshofer, A., Buizer, A. I., Harlaar, J. & Dominici, N., 12 May 2019.Research output: Contribution to Conference › Abstract › Academic
Muscle Synergies in Response to Biofeedback-Driven Gait Adaptations in Children With Cerebral Palsy
Booth, A. T. C., van der Krogt, M. M., Harlaar, J., Dominici, N. & Buizer, A. I., 27 Sep 2019, In : Frontiers in Physiology. 10Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
The human sensorimotor cortex fosters muscle synergies through cortico-synergy coherence
Zandvoort, C. S., van Dieën, J. H., Dominici, N. & Daffertshofer, A., 1 Oct 2019, In : NeuroImage. 199, p. 30-37 8 p.Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Muscle synergies during walking in very young children with cerebral palsy
Bekius, A., Kerkman, J. N., Zandvoort, C. S., Daffertshofer, A., Harlaar, J., Buizer, A. I. & Dominici, N., May 2018, p. 10.Research output: Contribution to Conference › Abstract › Academic
Engagement of the Rat Hindlimb Motor Cortex across Natural Locomotor Behaviors
DiGiovanna, J., Dominici, N., Friedli, L., Rigosa, J., Duis, S., Kreider, J., Beauparlant, J., van den Brand, R., Schieppati, M., Micera, S. & Courtine, G., 2016, In : Journal of Neuroscience. 36, 40, p. 10440-10455Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Activities 2016 2018
- 3 Lecture / Presentation
Modular control of human locomotion
Nadia Dominici (Speaker)Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
Humans Running in Place on Water at Simulated Reduced Gravity
Nadia Dominici (Speaker)Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Popular
FirSTeps – the emergence of walking in children
N. Dominici (Keynote speaker)Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Academic
Prizes
Susanne Klein-Vogelbach-Prize for the Research of Human Movement
Nadia Dominici (Recipient), 2013
Prize › Academic