Pictured are (from left to right, back row): Nicholas Stanger; Dr Sam Vine; Dr Stephen Bailey; Prof Peter Krustrup; and Dr Magni Mohr. And (from left to right, front row): Louise Croft; Dr Jo Bowtell; and Dr Anni Vanhatalo.
Sport and Health Sciences welcomes 10 new members of staff
We are very pleased to welcome 10 new members of staff to the SHS team for the start of the 2011/12 academic year. Some are familiar faces, having recently completed postdoctoral research or PhD degrees in the Department, while others are outstanding new recruits. We are certain that they will enable SHS to consolidate and enhance its excellent reputation for research and teaching in human health and performance. We wish all our new staff every success in their new roles.
Pictured are (from left to right, back row): Nicholas Stanger (Associate Teaching Fellow in Sport and Exercise Psychology); Dr Sam Vine (Lecturer in Sport Psychology); Dr Stephen Bailey (Lecturer in Exercise Physiology); Prof Peter Krustrup (Professor of Sport and Health Sciences); and Dr Magni Mohr (Senior Research Fellow in Exercise Physiology). And (from left to right, front row): Louise Croft (Associate Teaching Fellow in Exercise Physiology); Dr Jo Bowtell (Associate Professor in Exercise Physiology); and Dr Anni Vanhatalo (Lecturer in Exercise Physiology). Not pictured are Sarah Jackman (Associate Research Fellow in Exercise Physiology) and Katie Bourne (Technician in Biomechanics).
Portraits of New Academic Staff
Dr Stephen Bailey has joined the Bioenergetics and Human Performance research group at SHS having completed his PhD within the Department in April 2011. Stephen's research focuses on the role of nitric oxide in muscle energetics and fatigue and involves collaboration with colleagues in the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry. Some of Stephen's PhD work with dietary nitrate supplementation and muscular performance has received international media interest and has resulted in a number of high-impact publications and awards at national and international conferences.
Dr Jo Bowtell completed her PhD examining the effects of nutrition and exercise on protein turnover at Dundee University in 1996. She subsequently spent 3 years lecturing and researching at Loughborough University and 12 years at London South Bank University, where she led sports science research and enterprise activity. Her main research interest is in exercise and nutrient-induced changes in human metabolism, and the application of this knowledge to optimise athlete performance and to prevent and treat clinical conditions such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Current projects include examining the effects of anthocyanin-rich montmorency cherries on inflammation and oxidative damage and recovery from exercise; the effects of nutritional supplements on peripheral and central fatigue;and the efficacy of intermittent hypoxic training in improving repeated sprint performance.
Louise Croft is completing her PhD in energy expenditure in wheelchair sportsmen at Loughborough University. She completed her BSc and MSc at Liverpool John Moores. Her background is in Paralympic sports physiology. Louise is looking forward to teaching physiology and nutrition at Exeter and learning to surf!
Dr Magni Mohr has joined the Bioenergetics and Human Performance research group this summer. He previously worked at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and with top-class football teams in Scandinavia, Italy and England. Magni’ s main research focus is fatigue development in intense intermittent exercise, as well as fitness training and testing in multiple-sprint sports, mainly football. In most areas of Magni’ s scientific work he combines movement analysis, performance testing and measurements of physiological response in applied settings with more sophisticated, invasive laboratory techniques.
Prof Peter Krustrup has been appointed as Professor in Sport and Health Sciences at SHS in August 2011. Peter is a world leading expert in muscle physiology as well as match performance, testing and training of elite team sport athletes. Peter is also recognised for his pioneering work on the fitness and health effects of recreational football, which has resulted in 25 scientific articles from 2009-2011 and world-wide media attention.
Nicholas Stanger is an Associate Teaching Fellow in Exercise and Sport Psychology and teaches on a number of modules on both the undergraduate (BSc) and postgraduate (MSc) Exercise and Sport Science programmes. After finishing his undergraduate degree at Staffordshire University, he completed his MSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Loughborough University in 2008. Since leaving Loughborough, Nick has been studying towards his PhD on the role of emotion in antisocial behaviour in sport at the University of Birmingham.
Dr Anni Vanhatalo has taken up a Lectureship after four years of post-doctoral research at SHS. Her ongoing work in the Bioenergetics and Human Performance research group focuses on the impact of nitric oxide availability and other interventions on muscle energetics and exercise tolerance. Anni continues to teach modules in Biochemistry of Exercise (year 1) and Factors Affecting Performance (year 3), and will also take on the Foundations of Sports Nutrition (year 2) and Laboratory Techniques in Exercise Physiology (MSc) this year.
Dr Sam Vine first joined the University of Exeter as an undergraduate in 2004, before beginning his PhD in 2007 under the supervision of Dr Mark Wilson. Sam’s research focuses on the psychophysiological processes underpinning the acquisition and performance of visuo-motor skills. Sam has been appointed as a Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Psychology.
Date: 3 October 2011
