Gert Kwakkel Ph.D.PT is a movement scientist and Professor in Neurorehabilitation at the Department Rehabilitation Medicine of the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam,The Netherlands. His chair is dedicated to translational research in the field of stroke rehabilitation. In particular he is interested in the role ofneuroplasticity and behavioral mechanisms for stroke recovery. He is managing editor of NeuroRehabilitation and Neural Repair (IMPF 4.8) and member of the editorial board of the Stroke Journal, the International Journal of Stroke and Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine. He is father of the EXPLICIT-stroke program that is running in the Netherlands since 2008 (www.explicit-stroke.nl). He haspublished more than 140 papers in leading scientific journals such asTheLancet,T heLancet Neurology, BMJ and Stroke. His work has been cited over 5000 times resulting in a H-indexof 36(WebofKnowledge). Worldwide, Gert Kwakkel has delivered more than 50 invited keynotelectures and is acknowledged recently as one of the top-researchers of the VU Medical Centre (http://www.vu.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoekers/erc-ideas-laureaten/advanced-grants/index.asp). GertKwakkel is president of the Dutch Society of Neurorehabilitation and responsible for the Physical Therapy Stroke Guidelines in the Netherlands. (www.dsnr.nl).