Dr. Nieuwboer is a full professor in the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences at KU Leuven, where she heads the Parkinson Rehabilitation Research Group (PRO-LAB LEUVEN https://gbiomed.kuleuven.be/english/research/50000743/50000744/PRO-labo). She and her team of researchers have made several original contributions to gait and motor control research in Parkinson's disease (PD), more specifically to freezing of gait and motor learning (https://lirias.kuleuven.be/cv?u=U0014581).