Prof. R.G.J. Meulenbroek (Ruud)
Professor - Cognitive Psychology
Professor - Donders Centre for Cognition
Professor - Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour
Resmas director - Education Committee Cognitive Neuroscience (Researchmaster)
Thomas van Aquinostraat 4
6525 GD NIJMEGEN
Postbus 9104
6500 HE NIJMEGEN
Professor Ruud Meulenbroek researches the neurocognitive basis of complex movements such as reaching, grasping, drawing and handwriting. He has developed simulation models of the planning, execution and coordination of purposeful movements, which have their application in robotics. Professor Meulenbroek has also carried out research into the coordination involved when people carry out tasks together and into the underlying causes of RSI. Between 2013 and 2020 he was the Director of the School of Psychology and Artificial Intelligence at the Radboud University. As of 1-feb-2023 he is interim director of the Cognitive Neuroscience researchmaster programme of the Donders Graduate School at the Radboud University.
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