After obtaining his BSc in Mechanical Engineering at Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands), Mark started his MSc degree Biomedical Engineering in Delft as well. During his masters degree he did a research internship at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark), being supervised by Prof. Jens Bo Nielsen. He finished his MSc degree studying involvement of the brain in the wrist muscle stretch reflex response. Mark started his PhD on developing rehabilitation techniques for improving hand grasp function in February 2012 at the University of Birmingham.