Lieke Peper

Dr. Lieke Peper is a Lecturer at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, affiliated with the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences and the Department of Human Movement Sciences. She is also associated with Amsterdam Movement Sciences and IBBA. Her research focuses on motor control, interlimb coordination, Parkinson's disease, and autism spectrum disorder. She has supervised seven PhD theses and contributes to editorial roles in journals like Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance and Journal of Motor Behavior.

Her work addresses topics such as gait analysis, movement stability, and virtual reality interventions for neurological disorders. Notable grants include studies on interlimb coordination asymmetries and rhythmic movement dynamics. She has published over 120 articles, with recent work exploring the speed-accuracy trade-off in walking and innovative methods to study Parkinson's-related gait impairments.