Simone Caljouw

Dr. Simone Caljouw is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Groningen. Her research focuses on visuomotor control, aging populations, and motor learning. She is affiliated with the SMART Movements research group and has examined topics like stepping-stone configurations, neural correlates of balance learning, and verbalization effects on motor actions. Her work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals related to health and well-being.

Research interests span motor skill acquisition, aging neurology, environmental design for movement, and cognitive-motor interaction. She has published extensively on topics such as spatial navigation challenges, task standardization, and risk perception in children and older adults. Her recent studies highlight age-independent preferences in stepping stone landscapes and neural plasticity in skill retention.

Active in academic supervision, she examined PhD student Kelly Berghuis. She collaborates widely, including with researchers in neuroscience and urban design. Professional activities include organizing public engagement events like 'Iedereen in beweging!' and delivering keynote lectures on motor control.

Her work bridges experimental psychology and applied neuroscience, with implications for aging populations and recreational infrastructure design. She leads projects on environmental interaction and has contributed datasets on ADAS use in Parkinson's patients.