Mariska Janssen PhD

Mariska M.H.P. Janssen born in Boxmeer on September 18th, 1986, received her MSc degree in Human Movements Sciences in 2011 from the Radboud University Nijmegen. In 2012 she started her Ph.D. studies at the Department of rehabilitation at the Radboud University Medical Centre. The topic of her Ph.D. studies was upper extremity function in boys and men with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, which was part of the Flextension A-Gear project, focused on the development of new arm supports/exoskeletons for boys and men with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. She successfully defended her thesis titled ‘Upper extremity function in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy’ on November 2nd2017.

Currently, Mariska is working as a post-doc researcher at the Department of Rehabilitation at Radboudumc, where she performs several studies related to neuromuscular disorders, 3D motion analysis, arm supports, fatigability, and martial arts training.