Hugo Bruggeman
Born and raised in the Netherlands, Dr. Bruggeman received his B.Sc. in Human Movement Sciences from Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam, the Netherlands). He then obtained a position as a visiting scholar at the University of Minnesota with Professor Gordon Legge.
In Minnesota he became a graduate student at the Department of Psychology completing his Ph.D. in Cognitive and Biological Psychology in 2004. His dissertation research, under the supervision of Professor Herbert Pick, addressed the adaptive aspects in the organization of action. As a paradigm he used learning to throw on a rotating carousel; very similar to that featured on Science@NASA.
Following his graduate work, Hugo became a post doctoral fellow at Brown University, where he currently works in Professor Bill Warren’s laboratory studying the perceptual control of locomotion. His research interests continue to evolve and, since recently, also involve computational vision (with Fulvio Domini).
His research has been published in international peer reviewed journals, including; Proceedings of the IEEE, Experimental Brain Research, Neuropsychologia, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, and Current Biology.