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Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology, Loughborough University

Dr Emma O’Donnell is a Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology at Loughborough University. Her research focuses on the interactions between estrogen, exercise training and cardiovascular health in premenopausal and postmenopausal women.

Emma graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Exercise Science from Brighton University before completing an MSc in Exercise Science at the University of Toronto, Canada. She then went on to complete her PhD in Exercise Science with a specialisation in cardiovascular physiology at the University of Toronto, Canada (2013). After completing her PhD, Emma undertook post-doctoral studies in the Clinical Cardiovascular Physiology Laboratory at the Toronto General Hospital, Canada. Emma’s research focuses on the cardiovascular health of women, with emphasis on the independent and combined effects of estrogen deficiency and exercise training in premenopausal and postmenopausal women.

In January 2016, she returned to the UK to take the post of Lecturer in Exercise Physiology at the University of Loughborough, becoming Senior Lecturer in 2022.

Emma is a member of The American Physiological Society and The British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences.

Experience

  • 2016–2022
    Lecturer, Loughborough University
  • 2022–2022
    Senior Lecturer, Loughborough University
  • 2014–2016
    Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto