Riemer JK Vegter is a human movement scientist, he obtained his PhD-degree on Wheelchair Skill Acquisition at the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands in 2015. He currently holds a position as Assistant Professor at the University Medical Center Groningen (NL) and is Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences of Loughborough University (UK). He performs fundamental research on the biomechanics & physiology of cyclic upper-body exercise, applied to the optimization of motor skill acquisition and assistive technology, for (wheeled) mobility in the context of rehabilitation, daily living and paralympic sports. Dr Vegter is member of Young Academy Groningen, International Society of Biomechanics in Sports, Society of Movement Analysis Laboratories in the low lands (SMALLL) and the Netherlands Society of Human Movement Sciences (former board member). He is also the chair of the RehabMove congress 2025 and has been guest editor for Disability & Rehabilitation and Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences.