Nico Verdonschot#
| Membership Number: | 4563 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://biomechanics.nl |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor at the Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, since 2013
- Head of the Orthopaedic Research Laboratory at Radboudumc, since 2016
- Professor at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands, since 2007
- Visiting professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, since 2017
- PhD student at the Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (1990-1995)
- Post-doctoral researcher at the Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (1995-2000)
- Director of section Biomechanics at the Orthopaedic Research Laboratory, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (2000-2013)
Fields of Scholarship
- Bone strength
- Human movement analysis
- 3-D printing of implants
- Orthopaedic biomechanics
- Implant biomechanics
- Musculoskeletal modeling
Honours and Awards
- Awarded to present the Erwin Morscher Honorary Lecture at the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT) meeting in Vienna (2017)
- Elected member of the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation (2017)
- Chairman of the Orthopaedic Implant Section of the Orthopaedic Research Society (2016)
- Elected Fellow of the International Combined Orthopaedic Research Society (only 6 European members are elected) (2016)
- Winner of the 5th Grand Challenge Competition at the World Congress of Biomechanics (2014)
- President and Honorary member of the European Orthopaedic Research Society (2012)
- European Research Council Advanced Grant (2012)
- President and Honorary member of the International Society for Technology in Arthroplasty (2010)
- Mimics Innovation Award. Category I: Innovative implant design system and the development of innovative medical procedures. (2008)
- SELVIK Award, 16th Annual meeting of the European Orthopaedic Research Society (EORS) (2006)
- CeramTec Publication Award 6th International Symposium Bioceramics in Joint Arthroplasty, Stuttgart, Germany. (2001)
- European society of Biomechanics award, Dublin, Ireland (2000)
- Promotieprijs 1997 of the Stichting World Biomechanics; (Best PhD thesis in the biomechanics field of that year in The Netherlands)
