Matthias Lang

Junior Researcher

Matthias (1988) is a former track & field decathlete and sprinter with great passion for all sports. After receiving his Bachelor’s in mechanical engineering in 2010, he spent several years working in the consulting industry before returning to school and earning his Master’s of Human Movement Sciences. His thesis focused on workload management and injury rates for circus artists.

Due to a long list of personal injuries, his main research interests are within injury prevention at all levels - elite, recreational, and disabled athletes. He also enjoys learning about research that is focused on implementing & promoting more active, healthy lifestyles

Daniël Zomerdijk

Master student

Daniël Zomerdijk (1994) is a physical therapist who has worked in a physical therapy practice and hospital. Now he is a student of the Master Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy sciences who works as an intern junior researcher from February till July 2020 at the faculty of Human Movement Sciences, at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

His main research topic is Prevention of sports and physical activity-related injuries. The study he works on is ‘to evaluate the effectiveness of the ‘VolleyVeilig’ volleyball warming-up programme for youth players over one-season (2019-2020) among youth volleyball players aged 10 to 16 years on volleyball related injury rate, severity, and burden of injuries’.

Vincent Gouttebarge

Professor

Prof. dr. Vincent Gouttebarge is a former professional footballer who played 14 seasons in France and The Netherlands (232 games; twice ACLR; twice concussion). He is an Extraordinary Professor in the Section Sports Medicine of the University of Pretoria and based at the Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine department of the Amsterdam University Medical Centers. He is also Chief Medical Officer at FIFPRO (Football Players Worldwide). Prof. dr. Gouttebarge’s work focuses on a wide range of sports medicine domains being relevant in professional sports (emphasis on football), striving to protect and promote the physical, mental and social health of active and former professional athletes. He is Chair of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Mental Health Working Group, co-Director of the IOC Programs on Mental Health in Elite Sport, member of the Medical Committee of the Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF), member of the Medical Expert Group of the French Professional Football League (LFP), member of the Concussion Expert Group of the International Football Association Board (The IFAB), member of the Concussion in Para Sport (CIPS) group, and member of the South African Sports Medicine Association (SASMA). Prof. dr. Gouttebarge is also a member of the Editorial Board of the South African Journal of Sports Medicine. If you want to know more about his research and publications, it might be worth checking out his Scopus profile.

Femke van Nassau

Senior Researcher

Femke van Nassau is a Post Doc at the Department of Public and Occupational Health of the EMGO+ Institute at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She holds a PhD (2015) from the VU University Amsterdam and a Msc degree in Health Sciences (major in Human Movement Science) from Maastricht University, both in the Netherlands.

Her main research topics are: Implementation research, process and effect evaluation, determinants of implementation, measurement of sedentary and physical activity behavior, intervention development following the Intervention Mapping protocol, prevention of overweight, qualitative research (focus group, interview). As part of her PhD research, Femke developed an implementation index score to measure programme delivery by combining measures of quality, dosage and fidelity.

Within the department, Femke has teaching responsibilities concerning courses for students the faculties of Medicine, Human Movement Sciences and Health Sciences and individual supervision in research training.

Joske Nauta

Senior Researcher

Joske Nauta is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Public and Occupational Health of VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After studying human movement sciences at the VU, she has been traveling and working at a large energy supplier before she returned to Amsterdam. Since 2009 she has been combining her duties as personal assistant to the head of department with an appointment as junior researcher. This has resulted in a thesis on injury prevention in young children which she successfully defended in June 2015. For her postdoctoral position, she is working on projects on the prevention of injuries, mainly in children.

Evert Verhagen

Chair

Evert Verhagen (1976) is a human movement scientist and epidemiologist who holds an University Research Chair on the topic of "Sports, Physical Activity & Health". He chairs the department's research theme 'Sports, Lifestyle and Health'. Evert is also the co-director of the Amsterdam Institute of Sports Sciences (www.aiss.nl), and chair of the Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports; one of the 10 International Olympic Committee (IOC) Centers of Research Excellence for the Prevention of Injury and Promotion of Health in Athletes.

His main research topics are: 1. Prevention of sports and physical activity related injuries (including cost-effectiveness and implementation issues); and 2. Physical activity promotion integrated in everyday life. He supervises several (inter)national PhDs and post-docs, divided across these two topics. Within the department he fulfils teaching responsibilities for the faculties of Medicine, Human Movement Sciences and Health Sciences, next to individual supervision in research training.

If you want to know more about his research and publications, it might be worth to check out his Scopus or Orcid profile.

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  Apr 6, 2023, 11:05 AM
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  RT @BMJOpenSEM: 💥#QualitativeResearch on 11+ in 🇳🇿 football ‼️ 11+ is a validated #injury #prevention strategy. ⚽️ ‼️ Incorporatio… https://t.co/hK15JBUTDa

  Apr 6, 2023, 11:04 AM
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  RT @BMJOpenSEM: #OriginalResearch Does a user-guided graduated digital tool help with skills acquisition for movement ❓ 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️… https://t.co/F1KZfD6hzQ

  Apr 6, 2023, 11:03 AM
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  Apr 6, 2023, 10:56 AM
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  RT @BMJOpenSEM: 🆕 editorial ⤵️ SEM makes the world go ‘round‼️ A global authorship and unified effort to raise the bar for #Sport… https://t.co/efr7KWQg8r

  Mar 30, 2023, 10:36 AM
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  Mar 30, 2023, 10:35 AM
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  Mar 28, 2023, 4:23 AM
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  Mar 28, 2023, 12:15 AM
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  Mar 28, 2023, 12:02 AM
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  RT @physioshane: Excellent also was @AmsterdamCHSS @VUamsterdam 🇳🇱coming in 4th in World for sports research quality here, no surpri… https://t.co/KJOizm2efe

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Ingrid Vriend

Collaboratoring Researcher

Ingrid Vriend (1973) is working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Public and Occupational Health of Amsterdam UMC, location VU University Medical Center. She studied Human Movement Science and Epidemiology, and worked as a researcher at VeiligheidNL (Consumer Safety Institute) and embedded researcher at VUmc focusing, among other things, on sports injuries and the development and evaluation of interventions. This work has resulted in a thesis ‘Preventing sport injuries: from evidence to practice’ which she successfully defended in September 2017. Currently, she is working on projects on the prevention of injuries in youth volleyball and judo.

i.vriend@veiligheid.nl