Karin Gerrits

Karin Gerrits is an Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, affiliated with the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences. She holds joint appointments in the departments of Prevention and Rehabilitation, AMS - Ageing & Vitality, and AMS - Rehabilitation & Development. Her work contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goals focusing on health and well-being.

Research interests include rehabilitation engineering, geriatric rehabilitation, and musculoskeletal disorders. She leads the Aandachtsgroep Inspanningsfysiologie in de Revalidatie (AIRe) group since 2022. Recent studies explore metabolic load in critical care patients, barriers to physical fitness training in geriatric rehabilitation, and post-COVID-19 muscle alterations.

Publications span peer-reviewed journals like Australian Critical Care and BMJ Open. She has supervised four PhD theses and contributed editorial work for Clinical Science and European Journal of Applied Physiology.