Dr Lisa Ryan is Head of the School of Science and Computing (Galway) and Head of Department of Sport, Exercise & Nutrition at Atlantic Technological University (ATU). She also serves as Director of ATU’s Food, Nutrition & Sports Performance theme and Director of the Irish Concussion Research Centre (ICRC). She completed her PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry at University College Cork and holds a first-class honours degree in Food & Nutritional Science from UCC. She has been recognized as a Registered Nutritionist (RNutr) and contributes as a scientific advisor and as an accreditation assessor with the Association for Nutrition (AfN). She recently led or is leading multiple European research projects (six at present) in areas of sport, exercise and nutrition, and supervises nine PhD students. Her work includes establishing the Medicinal Nutrition & Sport thematic research group and initiating new academic programmes in sport, exercise science, nutrition, and public health nutrition at ATU. She has published 135 peer-reviewed outputs spanning topics such as concussion, nutrition, bioactives, functional foods, and female health/sex differences in injury response. Her research interests include nutrition in concussion recovery / brain injury, sex-based differences in sports injury and rehabilitation, functional food / bioactive compounds in health and performance, nutrition & metabolic health, and women in sport / female athlete health.
Dr Lisa Ryan is Head of the School of Science and Computing (Galway) and Head of Department of Sport, Exercise & Nutrition at Atlantic Technological University (ATU). She also serves as Director of ATU’s Food, Nutrition & Sports Performance theme and Director of the Irish Concussion Research Centre (ICRC). She completed her PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry at University College Cork and holds a first-class honours degree in Food & Nutritional Science from UCC. She has been recognized as a Registered Nutritionist (RNutr) and contributes as a scientific advisor and as an accreditation assessor with the Association for Nutrition (AfN). She recently led or is leading multiple European research projects (six at present) in areas of sport, exercise and nutrition, and supervises nine PhD students. Her work includes establishing the Medicinal Nutrition & Sport thematic research group and initiating new academic programmes in sport, exercise science, nutrition, and public health nutrition at ATU. She has published 135 peer-reviewed outputs spanning topics such as concussion, nutrition, bioactives, functional foods, and female health/sex differences in injury response. Her research interests include nutrition in concussion recovery / brain injury, sex-based differences in sports injury and rehabilitation, functional food / bioactive compounds in health and performance, nutrition & metabolic health, and women in sport / female athlete health.