Dr Vleck´s Ph.D. covered training and injury, and how to predict both performance decrements and overuse injury, in Elite and age-group triathletes. She is a former Laboratory Director of the National Sports Medicine Institute of the UK, and was the long-term Chair of the Medical and Research Committee of the European Triathlon Union. Dr Vleck currently holds a full-time research position at the University of Lisbon, where her interests include medical support; elites; masters triathletes, training; health in triathletes both across the lifespan and vs. their sedentary age-matched peers; training maladaptation; training diary based predictive models that can be used to minimize the occurrence of non-functional overreaching, injury and illness; and pacing. Her extensive triathlon-related academic publication record includes invited chapters on triathlon injury for both the IOC Sports Medicine Handbook on Epidemiology of Injury and Illness in Olympic Sports and the ITU "Triathlon Medicine" book. Dr Vleck has provided sports science and/or coaching support to all levels of triathlete- from novices through to entire National Squads and Olympic silver medallists- over the 30 plus years that she has been researching how to optimise triathlon performance. Given her research, coaching, and sports science support background, Dr Vleck is particularly interested in how best to translate triathlon research into improvement in applied practice.