Justin Lawley PhD

Dr. Justin Stevan Lawley, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Sport Science at the University of Innsbruck. He studied sports science and outdoor activities at the School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences at Bangor University. He then continued his doctoral studies in a successful collaboration between the School of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences and the School of Psychology at Bangor University. His research focused on how low oxygen affects the human brain. Professor Lawley then moved to the United States, where he completed his postdoctoral training under the mentorship of Professor Benjamin Levine at the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine in Dallas. During this time, Professor Lawley worked with his closest colleagues Dr. Erin Howden, Professor Satyam Sarma, and Professor William Cornwell on some of the most challenging studies in exercise cardiology and gravitational physiology. He has received grants from agencies such as the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) in collaboration with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Partnership for Clean Competition (PCC), the Wilderness Medical Society (WM), and Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research (OeAD-GmbH). He has been awarded numerous national sponsorship prizes including the winner of the early investigator prize by the journal of physiology and has given numerous lectures at national and international conferences, advisory boards, and specialist seminars.