I worked as a PhD Studenton the GRIP space project under the supervision of Philippe Lefèvre. The GRIP experiment was designed to study the influence of long-term exposure to weightlessness (onboard the international space station) on object manipulation. We found that during discrete movements, astronauts failed to maintain consistent hand-path orientation with eyes closed only in very specific conditions with respect to gravity. These unique observations led us us to propose an “inverted pendulum” hypothesis to explain the saliency of the gravity vector for sensorimotor coordination. In a follow-up study on Earth, we showed that this drift in hand-path orientation was prevented only in the upright posture while drifts of similar magnitude and direction were found when participants were tilted backward at different angles with respect to gravity. I am now pursuing my research in this lab as a postdoctoral fellow.