Dr Oliver Gibson
Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology

Topics

Doctoral Supervision

• Hannah Marshall, Brunel University London - Respiratory responses to heat stress and dehydration
• Desmond Denny - Assessing the effects of local hyperthermia on muscle force production and function across the lifespan
• Gregor Eichhorn, University of Brighton - Strategies to prepare older individuals for extreme heat exposures

Enquiries relating to self-funded doctoral (PhD) research projects in the following areas would be well received

• Therapeutic benefits of passive heating
• Acute physiological and cellular/molecular responses to heat and/or hypoxia (altitude)
• Dehydration
• Heat adaptation
• Hypoxic (altitude) adaptation
• Cross adaptation between environmental stressors
• Performing in environmental extremes