I am a Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Medicine at the University of Bath. Before joining UoB, I worked in elite football for more than seven years, holding Sport Scientist roles with several professional clubs, including FC Inter Milan, Arsenal FC, and most recently Olympique de Marseille, where I served as Lead Sport Scientist.
During my career, I contributed to winning one English FA Cup and reaching three additional finals in Italian and French leagues.

I am member of the Centre for Health, and Injury & Illness Prevention in Sport. My research focuses on helping sport practitioners make better decisions by generating reliable knowledge and translating it into everyday practice. I currently focus on injury epidemiology and mechanisms, monitoring fatigue, training load, and developing post-exercise recovery strategies to support athlete health and performance.

My research also covers women’s sport, developing research that reflects the specific needs of female athletes. In addition, I explore how sport technologies and the data they generate are evaluated and used in practice. This includes protecting athletes’ data rights and ensuring sport organisations are not over-reliant on technology. 

I also contribute to applied consultancy and knowledge exchange projects with professional sport organisations, particularly in football. This work focuses on helping organisations use research, data, and technology to support decision-making, optimise performance processes, and structure performance departments effectively.

My work has informed policies and decision-making at the highest levels of sport. For example, my research on injury mechanisms has informed the football-specific guidelines for recording and reporting epidemiological data on injury and illness. It has also been incorporated into the Medical extension of the FIFA Football Language, which is currently used in FIFA tournaments to collect medical data.

Additionally, I have contributed to numerous applied projects with professional sports organisations supporting decision-making on fatigue monitoring, recovery strategies, and the organisation of performance departments in professional football.

I welcome applications from prospective doctoral students interested in the following research areas:

• Injury mechanisms and epidemiology in sport, particularly in the use of GPS and video-based systems to assess injury mechanisms and circumstances

• Fatigue monitoring and athlete readiness, particularly in the use of physical test (e.g., sub-max warm up, CMJ) or biochemical tests (e.g., blood, saliva) to assess athlete fatigue status

• Training load analysis and optimisation, particularly in the use of training load and fitness data to optimise training prescription

• Post-exercise recovery strategies, particularly in sleep, nutrition/supplements, lifestyle, and other external interventions

• Sport technology, data analytics, and applied monitoring systems, particularly in the validation of sport technology and in investigating how data can be used to create decision support-systems for practitioners

• Other football-related research topics across performance, health, and talent development

I teach on topics related to Sport Science support in team sports (fitness and fatigue testing, daily monitoring, recovery strategies), Training Load, Iinjury Prevention, Data Analytics, and Research Methods.