Lab Director

Hannes Devos, Ph.D., FACRM

Associate Professor

Research by Devos focuses on the interaction between cognition and mobility in older adults and those with progressive neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease.

Research Team

Fatimah Alkhameys, B.A.

Fatimah Alkhameys is a student in KU's doctoral program in rehabilitation science. Her research is focused on understanding how dual-tasking impacts gait in women with breast cancer. She has created a new virtual reality gait test with integrated eye tracker to evaluate the effect of different sensory modalities on dual-task performance in breast cancer survivors.

Samuel Durairaj, M.S., PT

Samuel Durairaj is a student in KU's doctoral program in rehabilitation science. In his doctoral project, he examines the effect of driver training in a low-fidelity driving simulator in older adults with Parkinson’s disease.

Sodiq Fakorede, B.S.

Sodiq Fakorede is a student in KU's doctoral program in rehabilitation science. He is interested in unraveling the neural signatures of cognitive-motor interference during balance and walking in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease.

Logan White, M.S.
Logan White is a student in KU's doctoral program in rehabilitation science. His research, funded by the NIH T32 University of Kansas Training Program in Neurological and Rehabilitation Sciences, focuses on ambient monitoring of gait and mobility in individuals with Parkinson’s disease. 

Alumni

Postdoctoral fellows

Jason Orlosky, Ph.D. (2014 – 2015) LinkedIn

Maud Ranchet, Ph.D. (2014 – 2016) LinkedIn

Sanghee Moon, Ph.D. (2018 – 2019) LinkedIn

Doctoral students

Maryam Sadeghi, Ph.D. (2025) LinkedIn

Pedram Ahmadnezhad, Ph.D. (2024) LinkedIn

Melike Kahya, Ph.D. (2020) LinkedIn

Research Collaboration

Lab team members are currently engaged in projects with top researchers at the University of Kansas Medical Center. Presently, work is underway with Shelley Bhattacharya, D.O., Jeffrey Burns, M.D., Linda D'Silva, Ph.D., Kelly Lyons, Ph.D., Jonathan Mahnken, Ph.D., Jamie Myers, Ph.D., Rajesh Pahwa, M.D., Catherine Siengsukon, Ph.D., Kenneth Seldeen, Ph.D., Bruce Troen, M.D., Heather Wilkins, Ph.D., and Frances Yang, Ph.D.

At the national level, we are collaborating with Julianne Schmidt, Ph.D. (University of Georgia) and Sanghee Moon, Ph.D. (University of New Hampshire). Continued long-term international collaborations include the French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development, and Networks (Maud Ranchet, Ph.D.).