Sabrina obtained her Master's degree in Physiotherapy from the University of Applied Science of Bern in 2020 and joined the Paralab as Research Assistant in the same year. She was mainly working in a clinical training study with iSCI and MS patients. In June 2022 she started as a PhD student in the group of PD Dr. Dr. Björn Zörner. Her main interests are the training and improvement of locomotor function in different patient groups. In her PhD project she is focusing on changes in qualitative and quantitative aspects of gait after different training regimes in spinal cord injured patients.

"Xiang Li, Associate Researcher/Associate Professor at the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, investigates the molecular mechanisms underlying spinal cord injury and neural regulation of osteogenic differentiation. He leads a National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) youth project and has contributed as first or corresponding author to publications in esteemed journals including Arthritis & Rheumatology, EMBO Molecular Medicine, and Experimental and Molecular Medicine."

Nele Bertels graduated as an occupational therapist in 2015 and obtained her master's degree in occupational science in 2019. From 2015 to 2021, she worked as an occupational therapist in neurological rehabilitation at the rehabilitation center Pellenberg, University Hospitals Leuven (Belgium). In September 2021, Nele started her PhD at Hasselt University (Belgium), focusing on training variables of task-oriented upper limb rehabilitation in people with cervical spinal cord injury.

Piia Haakana is a doctoral researcher in the doctoral program Brain&Mind at the University of Helsinki. Additionally, she serves as a clinical biomechanist at the motion analysis laboratory at Helsinki University Hospital. Her doctoral research focuses on investigating the effects of Paired Associative Stimulation, a method developed for spinal cord injury rehabilitation.