Rate My Professor Simon Vandergooten

Simon Vandergooten serves as an Assistant at the Université catholique de Louvain. He is affiliated with the Ecole polytechnique de Louvain (EPL), the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Electronics and Applied Mathematics (ICTEAM), and the Pôle en ingénierie mathématique (INMA). His research centers on motor control, sensorimotor coordination, and the influence of gravity on human movement and object manipulation.

Vandergooten completed a master’s thesis in 2021 focused on the design of the inversion-eversion degree of freedom for an active ankle-foot prosthesis. He defended his PhD thesis in November 2025, which examined the impact of gravity on reach and grip behavior as well as sensorimotor coordination during targeted motions. Key publications include the 2025 paper “A singular theory of sensorimotor coordination: on targeted motions in space” in the Journal of Neuroscience, the 2025 paper “Upright posture: a singular condition stabilizing sensorimotor coordination” in eneuro, and the 2026 paper “Effect of risks, consequences, and gravitational priors on sensorimotor coordination: insights from weightlessness” in the Journal of Neuroscience. He has also contributed to work on the stabilizing effects of upright posture on coordination under gravitational conditions.