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My research focuses on the iterative co-design, purpose-development, and evaluation of innovative and individually tailored technology-enhanced training concepts for neurodegenerative and neurological disorders. My mission is to rigorously commit to patient-centered and multidisciplinary research by advancing research methodologies and putting them into practice to collaboratively create credible, well-accepted, and effective solutions that have the potential to enhance clinical practice and improve care for individuals in need.To make the most out of this process, I put a strong emphasis on the involvement of primary (individuals with neurodegenerative or neurological disorders) and secondary (i.e., healthcare professionals as well as relatives and carers) end-users, other researchers, as well as experts from the exergaming industry. I am particularly interested in combining the advantages of qualitative and quantitative research and in combining a wide range of assessment techniques, including domain-specific neuropsychological assessments, various clinical protocols of (instrumented) physical activity, gait and mobility analysis (with accelerometry), and neuroimaging (i.e., electroencephalography, and (functional) magnetic resonance imaging).My medium-term goals are to investigate dose-response relationships between training components and their effectiveness, to further improve the personalization of technology-enhanced training approaches, and to investigate their mechanism of action across different etiologies or subtypes of neurodegenerative and neurological disorders.