Department of Movement and Sports Sciences /
Biomechanics
Veerle Segers obtained her master’s degree in Physical Education at Ghent University in 2001. After searching for a research grant she finished her PhD in biomechanics (entitled ‘A biomechanical analysis of the realization of actual human gait transitions’) in 2006, she obtained a postdoc position, but then took a career switch to the sports environment, taking the role of sports technical director at the basketball federation.
Three years later she returned to her passion and love for biomechanics as a professor at Ghent University. Previous research was done in a broad scale of biomechanics from fundamental gait analysis to applied sports science in talent detection and identification. As such, she maintains the link between the fundamental biomechanics and the sports community.