Laura Peeters

|147 CURRICULUM VITAE Laura Peeters was born in Venray on September 20 th , 1989. She graduated from secondary school in 2007 and started her study Technical Medicine at the University of Twente. Laura followed the master ‘Robotics & Imaging’, which included two years of internships. The internships were followed at the Radboud University Medical Center (department of Radiology and department of Nuclear Medicine), Philips Healthcare (department of X-ray and Ultrasound) and the University Medical Center Utrecht (department of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology), and combined clinical activities with research focused on improving healthcare with the use of technological innovations. She obtained her Master of Science in Technical Medicine in 2014. Afterwards she started her PhD training at the Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen (department of Rehabilitation). Laura’s PhD was part of the Symbionics project, aiming to develop dynamic assistive devices to support the trunk and head in patients with neuromuscular disorders. The project was a collaboration between several universities (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Twente and Radboud University Medical Center), companies and patient organizations. The role of bridging the gap between patients and engineers suited Laura very well. During her PhD, Laura presented her work at several (inter)national conferences and won ‘the best abstract award’ in 2016 at the Dutch conference of Technical Medicine. Laura now lives in ‘s-Hertogenbosch and works at Acknowledge Health Innovation as consultant health innovation.