ISEAL Leadership

Director, Professor Hans Westerbeek
Professor Hans Westerbeek is an active researcher and consultant to many international sporting organisations. He has co-authored over 15 books in sport management, marketing and business. He co-founded the European Association for Sport Management and was a founding member of the EU's European Network of Sport Science Institutes.

Research Director, Professor Michael McKenna
Professor Michael McKenna has an internationally recognised research history in integrative human exercise physiology. He is a world leader in skeletal muscle sodium/potassium-pump and potassium regulation in exercise in humans. He is also the coordinator of the Exercise Special Interest Group in the Australian Physiology Society.

Sport Research Leader, Professor David Bishop
Professor David Bishop is an expert on the effects of training on mitochondria, the effects of lactic acid on performance and adaptations to training, fatigue, and optimising team sport performance. He is the past president and current director (sport science) of Exercise and Sport Science Australia, and assistant editor of The Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport.

VU-AIS Professor of Sport Science, Professor Damian Farrow
Professor Damian Farrow is an expert on understanding the factors critical to sport expertise and talent/skill development. Holding a joint appointment between Victoria University and the Australian Institute of Sport, he conducts applied research and provides service to a range of national sports organisations focused on the development of athlete skill and coach education.

Exercise Science Research Leader, Professor Glenn McConell
Professor Glenn McConell is an expert on the factors regulating skeletal muscle glucose uptake during exercise and mitochondrial biogenesis after exercise. These studies have relevance for diabetes and as such, he has been awarded five National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) project grants and several Diabetes Australia Research Trust grants.

Active Living Research Leader, Professor Remco Polman
Professor Remco Polman specialises in stress, personality and sport and exercise and the psychology of (sport) injury rehabilitation, and has extensive research in Europe and Australia. Prior to joining the team, he was Professor of Sport and Exercise Sciences and Director of the Centre of Applied Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston UK.

Professor in Sports Partnerships, Professor Allan Hahn
Professor Allan Hahn enhances linkages between the Institute, national sporting organisations and Australian sport technology companies. He also provides sport science mentoring for our early career sport scientists, sport engineers and PhD students. Professor Hahn is the former Chief Scientist of the Australian Institute of Sport and an eminent and internationally regarded sport scientist.