Dr Jeroen Aeles
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
Researcher biography
Dr Jeroen Aeles has completed his PhD in Biomechanics at KU Leuven, Belgium in 2017. His work focussed on muscle-tendon interactions during sports movements, using ultrasonography and musculoskeletal modelling techniques. He joined the Centre for Sensorimotor Performance in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at The University of Queensland as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2018. His current work combines neurophysiological and biomechanical methods to quantify single motor unit behaviour during voluntary muscle contractions. His general interest is in understanding the fundamental mechanisms that drive muscle performance and how these mechanisms are affected by muscle geometry, their local environment, and neural control.
Publications
Journal Articles
Hamard, Raphaël, Aeles, Jeroen, Avrillon, Simon, Dick, Taylor J.M. and Hug, François (2023). A comparison of neural control of the biarticular gastrocnemius muscles between knee flexion and ankle plantar flexion. Journal of Applied Physiology, 135 (2), 394-404. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00075.2023
Aeles, Jeroen, Kelly, Luke A. and Cresswell, Andrew G. (2023). Flexor hallucis brevis motor unit behavior in response to moderate increases in rate of force development. PeerJ, 11 e14341, 1-18. doi: 10.7717/peerj.14341
Aeles, Jeroen, Sarcher, Aurélie and Hug, François (2023). Common synaptic input between motor units from the lateral and medial posterior soleus compartments does not differ from that within each compartment. Journal of Applied Physiology, 134 (1), 105-115. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00587.2022
Hamard, Raphaël, Hug, François, Kelp, Nicole Y., Feigean, Romain, Aeles, Jeroen and Dick, Taylor J.M. (2022). Inclusion of image-based in vivo experimental data into the Hill-type muscle model affects the estimation of individual force-sharing strategies during walking. Journal of Biomechanics, 135 111033, 111033. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2022.111033
Aeles, Jeroen, Bellett, M., Lichtwark, G. A. and Cresswell, A. G. (2022). The effect of small changes in rate of force development on muscle fascicle velocity and motor unit discharge behaviour. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 122 (4), 1035-1044. doi: 10.1007/s00421-022-04905-7
Aeles, Jeroen, Bolsterlee, Bart, Kelp, Nicole Y., Dick, Taylor J. M. and Hug, François (2022). Regional variation in lateral and medial gastrocnemius muscle fibre lengths obtained from diffusion tensor imaging. Journal of Anatomy, 240 (1) joa.13539, 131-144. doi: 10.1111/joa.13539
Hamard, Raphaël, Aeles, Jeroen, Kelp, Nicole Y., Feigean, Romain, Hug, François and Dick, Taylor J. M. (2021). Does different activation between the medial and the lateral gastrocnemius during walking translate into different fascicle behavior?. Journal of Experimental Biology, 224 (12) jeb242626, 1-9. doi: 10.1242/jeb.242626
Aeles, Jeroen, Horst, Fabian, Lapuschkin, Sebastian, Lacourpaille, Lilian and Hug, François (2021). Revealing the unique features of each individual's muscle activation signatures. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 18 (174) 20200770, 20200770. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2020.0770
Aeles, Jeroen, Kelly, Luke A., Yoshitake, Yasuhide and Cresswell, Andrew G. (2020). Fine-wire recordings of flexor hallucis brevis motor units up to maximal voluntary contraction reveal a flexible, non-rigid mechanism for force control. Journal of Neurophysiology, 123 (5) jn.00023.2020, 1766-1774. doi: 10.1152/jn.00023.2020
Aeles, Jeroen and Vanwanseele, Benedicte (2019). Do Stretch-Shortening Cycles Really Occur in the Medial Gastrocnemius? A Detailed Bilateral Analysis of the Muscle-Tendon Interaction During Jumping. Frontiers in Physiology, 10 1504, 1504. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2019.01504
Swinnen, Wannes, Hoogkamer, Wouter, Delabastita, Tijs, Aeles, Jeroen, De Groote, Friedl and Vanwanseele, Benedicte (2019). The effect of habitual foot strike pattern on the Gastrocnemius medialis muscle-tendon interaction and muscle force production during running. Journal of Applied Physiology, 126 (3) japplphysiol.00768.2018, 708-716. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00768.2018
Devismes, Morgane, Aeles, Jeroen, Philips, Johan and Vanwanseele, Benedicte (2019). Sprint force-velocity profiles in soccer players: impact of sex and playing level. Sports Biomechanics, 20 (8), 1-11. doi: 10.1080/14763141.2019.1618900
Aeles, Jeroen, Jonkers, Ilse, Debaere, Sofie, Delecluse, Christophe and Vanwanseele, Benedicte (2018). Muscle–tendon unit length changes differ between young and adult sprinters in the first stance phase of sprint running. Royal Society Open Science, 5 (6) 180332, 180332. doi: 10.1098/rsos.180332
Aeles, Jeroen, Lichtwark, Glen, Peeters, Dries, Delecluse, Christophe, Jonkers, Ilse and Vanwanseele, Benedicte (2018). Effect of a prehop on the muscle-tendon interaction during vertical jumps. Journal of Applied Physiology, 124 (5), 1203-1211. doi: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00462.2017
Aeles, Jeroen, Lichtwark, Glen A., Lenchant, Sietske, Vanlommel, Liesbeth, Delabastita, Tijs and Vanwanseele, Benedicte (2017). Information from dynamic length changes improves reliability of static ultrasound fascicle length measurements. PeerJ, 2017 (12) e4164, 1-18. doi: 10.7717/peerj.4164
Aeles, Jeroen, Lenchant, Sietske, Vanlommel, Liesbeth and Vanwanseele, Benedicte (2017). Bilateral differences in muscle fascicle architecture are not related to the preferred leg in jumping athletes. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 117 (7), 1453-1461. doi: 10.1007/s00421-017-3638-5
Boey, Hannelore, Aeles, Jeroen, Schutte, Kurt and Vanwanseele, Benedicte (2017). The effect of three surface conditions, speed and running experience on vertical acceleration of the tibia during running. Sports Biomechanics, 16 (2), 166-176. doi: 10.1080/14763141.2016.1212918
Zhang, Xianyi, Aeles, Jeroen and Vanwanseele, Benedicte (2017). Comparison of foot muscle morphology and foot kinematics between recreational runners with normal feet and with asymptomatic over-pronated feet. Gait and Posture, 54, 290-294. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2017.03.030
Schutte, Kurt H., Aeles, Jeroen, Op De Beeck, Tim, van der Zwaardc, Babette C., Venter, Rachel and Vanwanseele, Benedicte (2016). Surface effects on dynamic stability and loading during outdoor running using wireless trunk accelerometry. Gait and Posture, 48, 220-225. doi: 10.1016/j.gaitpost.2016.05.017