Siebe completed both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Artificial Intelligence at Radboud University in Nijmegen (The Netherlands), where he specialized in Neurotechnology and Healthcare. Following graduation, he joined the Brain, Body and Technology Lab at the Donders Institute in Nijmegen as a Research Assistant under the supervision of Dr. Luke E. Miller, deepening his work in computational modelling, body representations, tool adaptation, and proprioception. His research interests lie at the intersection of human perception and emerging technology, spanning proprioception, sensorimotor adaptation, body perception, neuroprosthetics, and healthcare applications.
In his PhD, Siebe will explore, both experimentally and computationaly, the perceptual characteristics of proprioception by investigating the dependencies of proprioceptive illusion on sensory integration. His work will involve testing participants in different conditions eliciting proprioceptive illusions through the stimulation of muscle spindles in tendons with vibrotactile units, collecting data on the perceived illusory movement and body posture, and at extending the existing computational models of the proprioceptive pathways.