On 30 June and 1 July 2023, Professor Yasuo Kawakami of the School of Sport Sciences Waseda University’s Health Promotion: The Joy of Sports and Exercise Unit (Top Global University) held a lecture and research exchange at KU Leuven at the Faculty of Movement & Rehabilitation Sciences.
Professor Kawakami (third from right) and participating students
On Friday 30 June, Professor Kawakami gave a lecture “Multi-scale Musculoskeletal Mechanics in Humans”, followed by a discussion of the KUL students’ data. On Saturday 1 July, Ms. Carmela Julia Mantecon Tagarro and Mr. Kazuki Tomari, who belong to our university presented their research, followed by a Q&A session and a demonstration and discussion of the experiment by KUL students.
(Photo above) Prof. Kawakami’s lecture (below) Research presentations and experimental demonstrations
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- Research presentation
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- experimental demonstration
During this lecture and research exchange, Professor Kawakami was impressed by the high percentage of female postgraduate students at KUL, as well as the positive comments and service spirit of the students. The lectures, discussions and research presentations were all very meaningful, as it gave him an opportunity to be exposed to the active research being conducted by post-doctoral and doctoral students under Professor Benedicte Vanwanseele.
