From an early age I was fortunate to navigate within international and multidisciplinary environments, from training clinical staff on the use of live support medical equipment in Mexico, to contributing to biomechanics and motor control research at institutes in Canada, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Before NLO, I worked as a PhD candidate at TU Delft. My research focused on the pre-clinical application of a new inexpensive ankle-foot exoskeleton that assists voluntary movement of individuals with neural lesions.