Profile Asker Jeukendrup

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	Asker Jeukendrup is one of the leading sports nutritionists, he is the Director of the Human Performance lab at the University of Birmingham and in charge of one of the most active sport and exercise research groups. At the age of 35 he became the youngest professor at the University of Birmingham and has received several awards for his academic achievements and contributions to sport and exercise sciences, including a chair at the University of Brussels. Asker is the author of several books including High Performance Cycling and a Textbook on Sports Nutrition in collaboration with Prof Michael Gleeson. Asker has published over 150 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters and has made it his mission to translate the science into practical applications that will benefit people who want to achieve their individual exercise goals, whether this is medals at Olympic Games or simply exercising for health reasons. Over the last few years Asker has worked with some of the best athletes in the world, including several Olympic and World Champions; he has also worked with the Rabobank professional cycling team, Chelsea FC, UKAthletics, Ethiopian marathon runners, and some of the best swimmers and triathletes. Besides that, Asker is a 15 time Ironman finisher, including 2 times the Ironman World Championship in Hawaii, was National Champion duathlon in his age group, and won the San Francisco Golden Gate Headlands marathon amongst other sporting achievements. His ventures have not gone unnoticed and Asker appeared in various TV programmes and featured in numerous newspaper articles and magazines.

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	Asker Jeukendrup was born in Roermond in the Netherlands in 1969. Following an MSc in Human Movement Sciences at Maastricht University in the Netherlands he completed his PhD in 1997 at the same University studying “aspects of carbohydrate and fat metabolism during exercise”. In 1997 he moved to the University of Texas at Austin in the USA where he worked as a post-doc studying the effects of diet-exercise interventions. After this he returned to Maastricht for another post-doc period, before moving to Birmingham in July 1998. He started as a lecturer at the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences of the University of Birmingham and in 2002 he was promoted to Senior Lecturer, promoted to Reader in Exercise Metabolism in 2004 and Professor in Exercise Metabolism in 2005. Asker was also awarded the Danone Chair at the Free University of Brussels in Belgium in 2005. Asker is a registered sport and exercise nutritionist. He is also a Fellow of American College of Sports Medicine and European College of Sport Sciences and a member of the Nutrition Society, Physiological Society, American Physiological Society, the New York Academy of Sciences and the American Diabetic Association. Asker is the Editor-in-Chief for the European Journal of Sport Science, member of the Advisory Editorial Board of the Journal of Sports Sciences, and served on the editorial board of the International Journal of Sports Medicine and Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise. Asker also serverd as a reviewer for 35 different scientific journals. Asker was a member of the IOC steering group Sports Nutrition which established a consensus statement in 2003, is on the International Advisory board for the IOC Diploma in Sports Nutrition and is one of the teachers on the course. Asker’s research interests have always been the metabolic responses to exercise, especially endurance exercise, the interaction between nutrition and exercise, sports nutrition, gastro-intestinal complaints during exercise, training and overtraining. Over the years he developed experience in measuring metabolism using stable isotopic tracer techniques and mass spectrometry and research focussed on the interaction between nutrition and exercise. Many studies received substantial attention from the media and Asker has been involved in the making of numerous TV programmes.

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