@aelesj.bsky.social
Asst Professor in Biomechanics @MOVE research group - Vrije Universiteit Brussel & Functional Morphology group - University of Antwerp / Function & structure of muscle / 🇧🇪 to 🇦🇺 to 🇫🇷 & via 🇺🇸 back to 🇧🇪
📢 Abstract submissions are officially OPEN for the #SEBconference - Florence 2026!
Submit your research for presentation at the SEB Annual Conference before 6 March 2026 (GMT).
More information:
www.sebiology.org/resource/seb-conference-florence-2026-abstract-submission-is-now-open.html
Fun days in the lab!
Great seeing the progress of these two in setting up 3D ultrasound imaging. This will be used for their projects: Daan De Vlieger on muscle assessment in stroke patients and Liese Bosman in 3D muscle shapes of contracting muscles!
#BNBlab
#BRRC
#VUB
#FWO
There are a couple of weeks left to apply! I just heard that we can also accept PhD students with a suitable background, so extending the call to those as well. #biomech_sky
16.12.2025 08:42 — 👍 4 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you @sebiology.bsky.social for featuring me and my lab in the autumn magazine.
My international journey has been incredibly valuable, including the fantastic people I have met and worked with.
Read the full article here:
issuu.com/societyforex...
Our lab:
move.research.vub.be/en/bnb-lab
The Nishikawa lab at Northern Arizona University and the NSF-funded Integrative Movement Sciences Institute are hiring a postdoc to help develop multiscale muscle models - please apply and share widely! careers.nau.edu/cw/en-us/job...
20.11.2025 23:11 — 👍 20 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 3
My research group has an open position for a postdoc! Interested in investigating the postural transition towards mammalian gait using movement simulations? We might have the right position for you! More details and application info here: www.asm.tf.fau.de/en/2025/11/1...
19.11.2025 13:41 — 👍 9 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1Synergistic yet different: Rethinking the gastrocnemii as two functionally distinct muscles.
In this preprint perspective article, @francoishug.bsky.social and I delve into the biomechanics, anatomy, neural control, and function of the gastrocnemius muscles, two important calf muscles.
Very happy with the first paper out of the Brussels Neuromuscular Biomechanics Lab!
We provide evidence that the #SENIAM #EMG guidelines are not appropriate for the LG and SOL muscles and that muscle-tendon decoupling needs to be considered!
50-days for free:
authors.elsevier.com/a/1m4ky3kurp...
Did you know that when you peer review for JEB, @biologists.bsky.social will protect a tree in Great Knott Wood, the Lake District, as part of its #ForestOfBiologists initiative to foster biodiversity? Every time you peer review for us we help the planet
30.10.2025 09:07 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Fish suck... but species that feed on algae suck differently! 🐟 A new publication in Communications Biology by #UAFunMorph members Jana De Ridder, Peter Aerts, and Sam Van Wassenbergh, demonstrates how head motion patterns for generating suction are finetuned to the species' main diets.
10.10.2025 14:57 — 👍 19 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1Needless to say: I’m out of the office 👋
08.09.2025 19:08 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
😃 In a new article published in J Biomech, Funaro et al estimates both patient-specific material coefficients and friction coefficient between two subtendon layers in vivo for patients with Achilles tendinopathy.
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@microsoft.com Windows’ “update and *shut down*” is one of the biggest lies of this era.
#NeverShutsDown #RestartingAndDrainingBatteryOvernight #Why #Betrayal #Judas
📣I’m hiring!
Two weeks to apply for an October start.
Start date is also flexible.
#PhD #Morphology #evolution
ISB 2025:
🗣️ Interested in surface #EMG electrode placement? I will present on Wednesday, July 30:
🕝 15:20 - 15:30
🔎 SENIAM-guided electromyography electrode placement is suboptimal for triceps surae muscles
📍 Room C1
💪 Parallel session 10D - Muscle Structure & Function
Who needs scientists when you can just make things up! I say, get rid of all science and speed up progress!! Or extinction. Whatever.
25.07.2025 13:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Conferences are hard.
#CNB2025 #Nuuksio #🇫🇮
Fun night out with the team after a full day of testing in the lab on an exciting #EMG project.
All excited now for comparative muscle biomechanics at the upcoming @sebiology.bsky.social conference in (soon-to-be) sunny Antwerp!
#BrusselNeuromuscularBiomechanicsLab #BRRC #VUB
Heaven
02.07.2025 19:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The IRIS - MSCA postdoctoral programme (ULB - VUB), and the European Commission is OPEN for applications.
Are you working in the space of "Health and Wellness", are eligible and have an excellent CV and motivation? Get in touch to discuss possible collaborations!
iris-cofund.eu/call-informa...
Wrapping the transverse foot arch improves running economy!
doi.org/10.1242/jeb....
Are you interested in muscle #biomechanics and looking for #postdoc opportunities?
If you have skills in (statistical) shape modelling, advanced data analyses or 3D imaging/model reconstructions, get in touch with me!
I will be at #SEB2025 (Antwerp), #CNB2025 (Helsinki), and #ISB2025 (Stockholm).
⏰ Final countdown: You have until 13 June to register for the 2025 #SEBconference in Antwerp!
Don’t miss one of the most exciting biology events of the year 🌱🧬🧫
Book now:
🔗 www.sebiology.org/resource/seb...
🧵👇 Here’s why you should be there (view thread)
A social media card with the Company of Biologists logo in the top left and a photo of a woman standing in shallow water placing a small bucket inside of a larger bucket in the top right who is a previous recipient of a Travelling Fellowship. Underneath these it says 'Are you an early career researcher planning to do a collaborative visit to another lab? You could be eligible for funding from us.' In the bottom right is a button stating 'Find out more.'
If you are a graduate student or a postdoc, consider applying for one of our Travelling Fellowships and you could receive up to £3000 to visit another lab & collaborate with other researchers. Deadline 8 August 2025
For more information visit: www.biologists.com/grants/trave...
This paper in #ProcB investigates a creative question: how human vocalisation relates to body dynamics, especially with some muscles attached to the torso, and finding that there is indeed a relationship:
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
Very interesting lecture at @uantwerpen.be on the extinct Tasmanian tiger, by author of this book Charlotte Van Den Boeck at the first #BioTalks.
15.05.2025 18:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#NeverFlyingWithRyanairAgain @ryanairofficial.bsky.social horrible service, rude and mean people, absolutely disgraceful. #RyanairDublin
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We are recruiting a postdoc for an exciting multi-disciplinary project that explores the use of quantum sensors to measure muscle behaviour - looking for someone with skills in ultrasound, mocap, and EMG - funded by QLD Government's Quantum 2032 Challenge uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uqcare...
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