Nuala Byrne

Professor Byrne graduated with a Bachelor of Human Movement Studies from the University of Queensland before completing a Master of Applied Science (Research) and PhD in the field of exercise physiology and energy metabolism at QUT. Nuala undertook a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Nutrition Sciences, Division of Physiology and Metabolism, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) before returning to Australia in 2002. She held the roles of Clinic Director and then Discipline Lead - Exercise and Movement Science in the School of Human Movement Studies (later the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences) at QUT. In her final years at QUT Nuala was the Domain Leader (Human Health and Wellbeing) in the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation.