Committees

ISEK values the contributions of our diverse membership and acknowledges that all members represent the future of our science and society.  The Society encourages all members to help advance ISEK by taking an active role on a committee. 

The Council is committed to being an inclusive organization that encourages diversity.  We welcome involvement of members from all over the world and from diverse backgrounds.

Browse the listing below for further information on each committee and application process. 

Clinical Application Committee (CAC)

The clinical application committee facilitates the clinical application of approaches developed within the fields of electrophysiology and kinesiology.

Committee Initiatives

The committee will encourage education and training to promote the use of various techniques in a clinical setting and their role in supporting evidence-based medicine. The committee will develop initiatives that could ultimately lead to enhanced patient outcomes, especially in the fields of rehabilitation medicine, ergonomics and occupational medicine, and neurology. The CAC reports to the ISEK Member Services Committee.

The ISEK Council invites members to contribute to the Society’s leadership by serving on the Educational Committee.

Please indicate your interest by filling out this expression of interest form here.

Application deadline: March 4, 2024

Communications Committee

The committee serves to coordinate communications between ISEK, its membership, and the public on matters central to the Society’s vision and mission.

Committee Initiatives
  • Website: The committee is currently putting the last touches to our revamped website.
  • Social media: We aim to further our presence on social media to engage trainees, researchers and other professionals and build the ISEK community.
The committee is composed of:

Corrado Cescon

University of Applied Science of Southern Switzerland

Emma Hodson Tole

Emma Hodson-Tole

Manchester Metropolitan

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Committee

To facilitate an equitable association, that recognizes diversity and inclusion, and emphasizes quality of life in event planning and dissemination activities.

Committee Initiatives

We will continue our work on encouraging and supporting diversity  in all aspects of ISEK and the ISEK Congress.  More specifically, we will:

  • Develop initiatives to support members who may otherwise not have a chance to attend our conferences or contribute to workshops and discussions
  • Organization of talks or tweets for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and the International Day of Older Persons
  • See our strategic intent and diversity statement here
The committee is composed of:
Niels Brouwer

Marcel Bahia Lanza

University of Maryland Baltimore

Niels Brouwer

Niels Brouwer

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Madeleine Lowery

University College Dublin

Silvia Muceli Chalmers

Silvia Muceli

Chalmers University of Technology

Kylie Tucker

Kylie Tucker

University of Queensland

Kylie Tucker

Ping Zhou

University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Early Career Researcher Committee (ECR)

The Early Career Researcher Committee represents the students and early career researchers of ISEK.  The committee was formed through a recent call for participation to all student and postdoc Society members, which received an outstanding response from the community, reinforcing the timeliness of this effort.

Committee Initiatives
  • Targeted ECR Newsletter: The quarterly newsletter focuses on information pertinent to PhD students, postdocs and other early career researchers.
  •  DeLuca symposium: From 2023, the ECR committee is responsible for organizing the DeLuca symposium. This symposium will take place in ~July on the “off-conference year”. The organization of this symposium will be supported by our ECR DeLuca award winners from the previous ISEK congress.  Our 2022 DeLuca award winners were: Manuela Besomi, Marco Ghislieri and Bryan Schlink.
  • Communications: Watch this space as our ECR committee works with our Communications Committee to ensure that our communication with members and beyond is efficient and effective.
The committee is composed of:

Elisa Romero Avila

RWTH Aachen University
Student

Simon Avrillon

Imperial College London
Early Career Researcher

Manuela Besomi

The University of Queensland
Early career researcher

Niels Brouwer

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Early career researcher

Josh Carr

Texas Christian University
Early Career Researcher

Ricardo Mesquita

Chalmers University of Technology
Early Career Researcher

Phoebe Ng

The University of Queensland
Student

Gregory Pearcey

Memorial University of Newfoundland
Early Career Researcher

Andy Sanderson

Manchester Metropolitan University
Early Career Researcher

Educational Committee

The educational committee facilitates the development and dissemination of the educational resources among ISEK members.

Committee Initiatives

The committee will develop initiatives that provides ISEK members with opportunities to

  • Understand the main principles at the basis of the interpretation of electrophysiological and biomechanical data
  • Learn how to use existing and emerging techniques
  • Share their own interests in specific topics, informing the committee on potential directions to take

The educational committee reports to the ISEK Member Services Committee.

The ISEK Council invites members to contribute to the Society’s leadership by serving on the Educational Committee.

Please indicate your interest by filling out this expression of interest form here.

Application deadline: March 4, 2024

Member Services Committee

The Membership Committee cooperates with the ISEK Council to develop and maintain programs to ensure that ISEK brings value to all its members.

Committee Initiatives
  • ISEK JEK Tutorials: The committee organizes the Tutorials which are scheduled each year in October and April.
  • Repository of teaching materials: We are in the process of creating a repository of teaching materials available to the ISEK community.
  • Technical committee: We are starting a committee to inform the research direction of ISEK and to support scientific activity in selected areas of interest to the ISEK membership.
The committee is composed of:

Manuela Besomi

The University of Queensland

Francois Hug

François Hug

Université Côte d’Azur

Ricardo Mesquita

Chalmers University of Technology
Early Career Researcher
Taian Vieira

Minoru Shinohara

Georgia Institute of Technology

Taian Vieira

Taian Vieira

Politecnico di Torino

Organization Committee

The Organization Committee reviews and keeps all governing documents up to date, and coordinates the grant writing efforts to support ISEK activities such as the Congress. The committee also ensures coordination across all other ISEK committees.

The committee is composed of:
Laurent Bouyer

Laurent Bouyer

Laval Université

Madeleine Lowery

University College Dublin

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Eric Perreault

Northwestern University

Kylie Tucker

Kylie Tucker

University of Queensland

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Kohei Watanabe

Chukyo University

 Technical Committee

The purpose of the ISEK Technical Committee (TC) is to inform the research direction of ISEK and to support scientific activity in selected areas of interest to the ISEK membership. The TC tracks scientific developments, encourages innovation and facilitates education in areas related to electrophysiology and kinesiology. The committee has a particular focus on emerging areas at the intersection of electrophysiology and kinesiology and related disciplines and works together with the ISEK council to advance knowledge in a specialized area or on a specific topic. The TC reports to the ISEK Member Services Committee.

Committee Initiative

The Technical Committee may lead the dissemination of knowledge on a specific topic or facilitate integration of different scientific activities under a selected theme. This may include leading or supporting aspects of the scientific program of the ISEK Congress or other activities during the period between conferences such as webinars, tutorials, drafting of technical specifications, working papers etc.

The committee is composed of:

Francesco Negro (Chair)

University of Brescia
Technical Committee Chair

Jeroen Aeles

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Taylor Dick

University of Queensland

Emma Hodson Tole

Emma Hodson-Tole

Manchester Metropolitan