Roland Rossler

Collaboratoring Researcher

Roland Rössler is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Public and Occupational Health of VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. During his PhD studies at the Department of Sport, Exercise and Health at the University of Basel, Switzerland, he investigated injury characteristics and injury prevention in children’s football (soccer). After his PhD he coordinated an international multicentre study to investigate the efficacy of the new injury prevention programme, specifically designed for children’s football (“11+ Kids”). 

During his postdoctoral project at the VU University Medical Center he investigates the influence of relative age and maturity on motor performance and on physical activity levels in school children. His project is kindly funded by the prestigious “Early Postdoc Mobility Fellowship” from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

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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  RT @footballmed: I’ll be at #isoK23! 🙌 retweet if YOU will be in London this May! #Iwillbethere #London2023 #footballmed https://t.co/FVvZIgd8Nt

  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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  RT @MedicsVoices: Thank you for sharing this. We would not have academic publications without the huge commitment of colleagues aroun… https://t.co/ULwtsXpGn8

  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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  RT @DrSportSante: SEM around the World. Ode to a profession worth every minute of my day. Great job by @CarrardJustin… https://t.co/KAWpqNi16W

  Mar 30, 2023, 10:35 AM
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  RT @PatrickOwenPhD: 🤩I appreciate journals putting in extra effort. Thank-you @AnnalsofIM for this kind acknowledgement! Other example… https://t.co/VkR1urr8gK

  Mar 28, 2023, 4:23 AM
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  RT @FemaleAthConf: #2023FAC featured talk: IOC Consensus REDs Update! @louisemburke, @margomountjoy, and @TStellingwerff will discuss… https://t.co/62hHgcXcQu

  Mar 28, 2023, 12:15 AM
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  RT @FionaWilsonf: All that my fellow Mancunian Emmeline says on #InternationalWomensDay A shout out to my male sports medicine collea… https://t.co/PQOzRcVlnv

  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

  Mar 24, 2023, 5:10 PM