Moira van Leeuwen, PhD, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Human Movement Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. During her PhD (2018–2023), she focused on fundamental research related to active stability control during steady-state walking. Her Open Science approach was awarded the faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences’ 2022 Open Science Award, and her thesis won third place in the 2024 Vvbn Thesis Competition. Motivated to translate her fundamental findings into training interventions, she won the 2020 Amsterdam Movement Sciences talent grant to investigate the training potential of her training shoe  “LesSchuh”. In 2022, she obtained the faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences’ travel grant to investigate different training interventions at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, USA. After her PhD, Moira continued as a postdoctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In her first postdoc, she focused on programming a reward-based motor learning task for children. In her current postdoc, she continues to translate fundamental findings into clinical use by researching speed-dependent treadmill training in Parkinson’s patients.