Inaugural Lecture of Professor Sam Lucas

From regulation to optimisation: It’s all about the brain!

Please join us for the Inaugural Lecture of Professor Sam Lucas. Everyone is welcome.

Professor Sam Lucas is an integrative physiologist with a primary research interest in brain vascular health. His broader interests and expertise are in the areas of exercise and environmental physiology, as well as physical activity and health.

After completing his undergraduate, PhD and postdoctoral training at the University of Otago, New Zealand, he moved to the UK in 2013 to establish an independent research programme focused on optimising the use of exercise to improve brain health. Since arriving at the University of Birmingham, Professor Lucas has established inter- and multidisciplinary collaborations with physicists and cognitive neuroscientists, optical bioengineers and computer scientists, behavioural and experimental psychologists, clinicians, and other physiologists and sport and exercise scientists that have resulted in a series of studies and over 100 publications that have taken him far beyond his original research programme vision – and also answers the question he is most frequently asked … ‘You’re from New Zealand, why are you here?!’

In his inaugural lecture, Professor Lucas will provide an overview of his work to date and address the question why he’s chosen to live and work in Birmingham.

The lecture will be delivered online and in-person.

Guests are invited to join Sam after the lecture for refreshments in the atrium of the Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Science Building (Y14 on campus map).