Roland Devlieger holds an academic position at the KU Leuven as full professor. He is the former head of the division of maternal-fetal medicine within the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology (2008-2018) (Chair Prof. Dr. Dirk Timmerman).
His research interest is mainly clinical and translational and focuses on lifestyle, prematurity, obesity, reproduction after bariatric surgery and fetal medicine. He is Senior Clinical Researcher for the Flemish research fund, FWO Flanders, Belgium and member of the board of directors of the VVOG. He is founder and PI of the REALIFE research group within the KULeuven Department of Growth and Regeneration. He is the PI of the “AURORA” project, a multicenter prospective cohort on reproductive outcomes after bariatric surgery and project coordinator of INTER-ACT, an innovative FWO funded lifestyle-RCT on postpartum women. He is associate editor for several journals in the field.

REALIFE Research group

In 2006 RD started a new research line on the study of obesity and pregnancy within the Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven. Since then, this research line has expanded and is now a solid research group with a very multidisciplinary approach and important academic output. The methodology is qualitative and quantitative and includes epidemiologic studies but also prospective cohort studies and intervention trials on the effects of lifestyle interventions in pregnancy and in the postpartum. Currently, there are six ongoing PhD projects and several Master projects. The group also includes the first ever KUL ZAP midwife (Prof. A. Bogaerts) and a part-time bio-statistician (L. Ameye).
(REALIFE gbiomed.kuleuven.be/english/research/50000640/clusterwch/realife/realife)

His H-index is 55 (Web of science) from over 350 peer reviewed publications.
Link to publications: lirias.kuleuven.be/cv?u=U0012729