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Prof Mark Hollands

Sport and Exercise Sciences

Faculty of Science

Email: M.A.Hollands@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 904 6254

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I am a Professor of Movement Neuroscience and Deputy Head of the Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University.

Background

I completed my undergraduate Physiology degree at the University of Bristol and stayed to undertake post-graduate research as a member of David Armstrong's Motor Control Group. After receiving my PhD in 1997, I was awarded a prestigious Wellcome Trust Prize International Travelling Research Fellowship to study Biomechanics techniques with the late Professor Aftab Patla in the Gait and Posture Lab, in the Kinesiology Department at Waterloo. On returning to the UK in 2001, I spent one year studying patients with balance disorders working in collaboration with Professor Adolfo Bronstein at Charing Cross Hospital (Imperial College, London). In 2002 I was appointed a Lectureship (UK equivalent to Assistant Professor) in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham and moved to LJMU as a Reader in Sensorimotor Neuroscience in April 2012.
My main research goals are: first, to determine the mechanisms underlying the sensory motor transformations serving locomotion and how they are adversely affected by the aging process and disease and second, to apply knowledge of these mechanisms to the development of novel diagnostic tests, technologies and rehabilitation techniques for improving functional mobility and preventing falls in frail individuals.

Degrees

1997, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, PhD
1993, University of Bristol, United Kingdom, BSc

Academic appointments

Professor of Movement Neuroscience and Deputy Head of Research Institute, Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, 2018 - present
Reader in Sensorimotor Neuroscience and Deputy Head of Research Institute, Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, 2015 - 2018
Lecturer in Motor Control, Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Birmingham, 2002 - 2012

Postgraduate training

Wellcome Trust International Prize Travelling Research Fellow, United Kingdom, Imperial College, 2001 - 2002
Wellcome Trust International Prize Travelling Research Fellow, Canada, University of Waterloo, 1999 - 2001

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