After graduating as medical doctor (summa cum laude) from the Medical University of Pécs in Hungary, Gabor moved into biomechanics research at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) in 1993. He then took up a position in the NHS to run the clinical gait analysis laboratory of Alder Hey Children’s Hospital (1996-2001) where he tested the movement of hundreds of children to inform corrective surgical interventions. After returning to LJMU, Gabor obtained his PhD in 2007 through developing artificial neural network based methods to aid clinical decision making in gait analysis of children with cerebral palsy. Gabor was promoted to professor of clinical biomechanics in 2015. His main current research focus is virtual rehabilitation aiming to improve the selective movement control of children and adults with smart games. Since 2013 he has been performing clinical gait analysis coupled with longitudinal research for all patients in the UK with alkaptonuria, a rare genetic disease leading to early osteoarthritis. Gabor continues to teach on the annual ESMAC Gait Course, having served on the ESMAC Board between 2017-2022 as the ESMAC Gait Course organiser.

Tamaya Van Criekinge earned her Master’s degree in Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy with a specialization in adult neurology. Her PhD research focused on exploring the critical role of trunk control in the walking abilities of stroke survivors. Throughout her research, she conducted numerous clinical investigations within this population, and performed biomechanical analyses across various movement laboratories at the University of Antwerp, Liverpool, Illinois at Chicago, and KU Leuven Bruges. Presently, as a postdoctoral researcher, she remains dedicated to the fields of adult neurorehabilitation and geriatrics.

Martin Gough is a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon with a special interest in the management of children with disability due to neuromuscular problems. He trained in Ireland, and following fellowship experience in Toronto took up his present post working with the team in the One Small Step Gait Laboratory at the Evelina Children’s Hospital in Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, London, in 1998.

Juha Hijmans is a Movement Scientist based in Groningen, the Netherlands. He serves as an Associate Professor at the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University Medical Center Groningen. His work spans clinical gait analysis and research, with a strong focus on optimizing gait through assistive devises. Juha has a particular interest in optimizing footwear to enhance mobility and reduce the risk of injury.

Lara is a specialist physiotherapist with 18 years experience working in and around the North West Movement Analysis Centre based at Alder Hey Childrens Hospital in Liverpool. Previously she worked as a community paediatric physiotherapist. Currently based in the Gait Laboratory, but also carrying a neuro-orthopaedic caseload, she works with children with Cerebral Palsy and other neuromuscular difficulties as well as being a Gait Laboratory auditor in the UK.

With 20 years experience in clinical gait analysis, Emma is based at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals (UK) and is the Lead Clinical Scientist at Sheffield Children’s Hospital Gait Laboratory. She works a part of a multi-disciplinary team, providing a paediatric gait analysis service to children and young people with gait pathology. Emma is actively involved in clinically-led service development and research, with a current focus on Musculo-skeletal modelling, and is a gait lab auditor for CMAS in the UK and Ireland.