Research Team

We are an international multidisciplinary team of research experts, academics, practitioners and business partners specialising in the field of Nutrition, Exercise Science, Behavioural Psychology and Health Sciences.
Our focus is on improving people’s life focusing on populations with specific needs and challenges related to their physical and mental health aswell as physical activity and sport performance. The populations that we are working with range from the general public to clinical populations such as type 2 diabetes and mental health patients, to elite athletes.

 

 

 

 

 

Internal Collaborators – Academic Staff
External Collaborators – Academic Staff
External Collaborators – Practitioners and Business Partners

 

Let us introduce our research group:

 

INTERNAL COLLABORATORS – ACADEMIC STAFF

Dr. Ifigeneia (Fenia) GiannopoulouHead of Research Group 

 

Dr. Peter Watt

 

Dr. Kathy Martyn

 

Professor Yiannis Pitsiladis

 

Dr. NeilMaxwell

 

Dr. Louisa Beale

 

Dr. Gary Brickley

 

Dr. Fergus Guppy

 

 

EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS – ACADEMIC STAFF

Dr. Borja Muniz

 

Dr. Tim Fairchild

 

Dr. Sofia Daskou

 

Dr. George Sakkas

 

Dr. Christina Karatzaferi

 

Dr. Eirini Manthou

 

Professor Massimo Saccheti

 

Dr. AndreaMacaluso

 

Dr. Nicky Keay

 

 

EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS  – PRACTITIONERS AND BUSINESS PARTNERS Mr. Simon Hart

 

Mr. Costas Bardis – Nutrilab 

 

University of Brighton Academies Trust

https://www.brightonacademiestrust.org.uk/

 

 

Our team is enhanced by the valuable contributions of our postgraduate students and their research work:

Mrs Maria Kotopoulea-Nikolaidi

 

Mr. Greg Wright

 

Miss Katy Brabbin