Editor Profiles
Ciarà n is a Senior Editor with the BMC Series. He obtained his BSc in Neuroscience from University College Dublin, MSc & PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences from University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has authored 15 peer-reviewed articles developing behavioral tests to study psychiatric illnesses in rodents and humans. Having most enjoyed the publishing process while researching, Ciarà n relocated to London to pursue an Editorial career at BMC Series. He is committed to promoting open access, robust, and reproducible science at BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, BMC Rheumatology, and BMC Sports Science, Medicine & Rehabilitation.
Assistant Editor: Sarah Gray.
Fred DiMenna earned a PhD in exercise physiology from University of Exeter in the UK in 2010. His PhD research was in oxygen uptake kinetics. After returning to the USA, he continued to work with the group at Exeter in addition to assuming a position as a Research Associate at the New York Obesity Research Center at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital in Manhattan. He is also working with researchers at the Lung Institute at the Sheba Medical Center in Israel and the Faculdade de Ciências at São Paulo State University in Brazil. DiMenna, who is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Movement Sciences at Columbia University Teachers College, joined the Editorial Board of BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation as Section Editor for the ‘Exercise physiology’ section in April 2014. Prior to studying exercise, DiMenna had a 20-year career as a competitive bodybuilder including 10 years at the professional level.
Angie was appointed a Senior Editorial Board Member with BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation in December 2020. Angie obtained her B(App)Sc (Physio) from Lincoln Institute of Health Science, her Masters (Physio) from the University of South Australia, and her PhD (Medical Science) from the Australian National University. She is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Angie’s areas of research interest include quantitative and qualitative research and outcome measure design and has published works covering tendinopathy, osteoarthritis, rehabilitation, exercise science, outcome measures and biomechanics. Angie is committed to improving the quality of published research.
After completing a BSc in Sport Science, Stuart stayed on to complete an MSc in Applied Sport Science at St. Mary's University College. Stuart then studied for a PhD within the Centre for Sports Medicine and Human Performance at Brunel University before taking up a Research Associate post at Northumbria in February 2011. Stuart began as a Senior Lecturer in October 2012 and was appointed Associate Professor in September 2019. Stuart’s research interests include studying the mechanisms of fatigue, exercise performance and recovery, and sex differences in physiology. In addition to Stuart being a Senior Board Member for BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, he also acts as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Exercise Physiology and Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise.
