Dr. Stefaan Verbruggen was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the group from 2014 to 2017. Dr. Verbruggen’s research project focussed on how the prenatal biomechanical environment affects the development of musculoskeletal diseases in later life. The project was funded by Arthritis Research UK. Stefaan is now a Marie Curie Postdoctoral fellow at University of Columbia (USA) and Queen Mary University London (UK), and in 2020 will start a faculty position in the University of Sheffield.