Jaap Harlaar is professor of clinical biomechanics. He specializes in technologies and methodologies to measure human motion (a) aiming to inform clinical decision-making in cases of movement pathologies and (b) to include in biomechanical analyses of the musculoskeletal system during gait and other human movements.

research interest

• Kinematics of human motion
• Clinical biomechanics
• Computational biomechanics
• Biomechanics in osteoarthritis