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Astrid Maria Louise Kappers is a Professor of the Physics of Man at VU University Amsterdam, known colloquially as VU. She has been a full Professor since February, 2005. Prior to working at VU, Kappers worked at Utrecht University where she worked as an associate professor and senior lecturer. She was also granted external funding from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research to conduct her research. She specializes in human perception and psychophysics, in particular haptic perception of spatial and  geometric properties. She has published |over 200 academic papers and has delivered talks at a number of prestigious conferences including the IEEE Haptics Symposium 2014.

Currently, Kappers is involved in a number of projects including | H-Haptics the aim of which is to develop technology that is capable of providing veridical haptic feedback to a human operator to provide realistic and immersive engagement with unusual environments that are difficult or dangerous to access directly, for example the deep sea and outer space. She also plays a key part in |The Hand Embodied project which aims to better understand the mechanisms of haptic perception that is financially supported by the European Commission.