Dr. Sascha Verbruggen works as attending staff in the Department of Pediatric Intensive Care, ErasmusMC - Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is a clinician-scientist focusing on nutrition and metabolism in critical illness, with a special interest on the long-term consequences for critically ill children. In 2007-2008 Dr Verbruggen worked as research fellow in nutrition and metabolism at the Children Nutrition Research Center (CNRC), and the PICU of the Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA. After his return to Rotterdam, he began his pediatric clinical work in the Pediatric ICU of the Erasmus MC–Sophia children’s hospital, while continuing his research in the field of nutrition & metabolism in critically ill children. This led to his PhD “Protein, Energy, and their Interaction in Critically Ill Children” in December 2010. Together with Prof. Dr. KFM Joosten, he has established a nutrition and metabolic research unit, with ongoing research regarding nutrition and metabolism in critically ill children at the Erasmus MC–Sophia Children’s Hospital. Since 2018 he is the chair of the Metabolism and Nutrition section of the European Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC)