Professor Visser currently serves as a Professor (Lector) in Functional Exercise Therapy and as scientific director of the Centre of Expertise Urban Vitality (CoE UV) at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA). Recently, he was also appointed endowed professor of 'Self-Management Support for Vital Movement' at VU Amsterdam as part of the collaboration between HvA and VU Amsterdam. Professor Visser has regularly supervised doctoral candidates as co-supervisor and has also played a role in the board of the AMS research program 'Ageing & Vitality'. In recent years, there has been a desire to intensify the collaboration in the field of research.
The chair in Self-management Support for Vital Movement is embedded in the Prevention and Rehabilitation section of the department of Human Movement Sciences at VU Amsterdam and has three main objectives:
- Increasing insight into promising and successful strategies to coach and support people in self-regulating vital movement during daily life.
- Developing and evaluating interventions focused on vital movement, supported by information technology and creative technology.
- Embedding the first two goals in 'rich' learning environments such as Living Labs, where education, research, and practice converge.
Return
With this appointment, professor Visser returns to VU Amsterdam, where he worked from 1990 to 2010, at the Faculty of Human Movement Sciences. Back then, occupational health and ergonomics were central themes for education, research and advice. Professor Visser obtained his PhD in 2004 with a thesis on Upper Extremity Load in Low-Intensity Tasks.