David is a Professor of Exercise Metabolism at Loughborough University and is also the Associate Dean for Research at Loughborough's School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences.
David's research focuses on exploring the themes of physical activity and health, and of the effects of exercise on appetite regulation, cardiovascular diseases risk, lipoprotein metabolism, and on factors affecting individual variation in responses to exercise.
He also acts as Associate Editor for the International Journal of Obesity (January 2013 to present), and is a Member of the British Nutrition Foundation (BNF), Scientific Advisory Committee (March 2015 to present), the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (BASES) Scientific Programme Committee (September 2016 to present) and a Scientific Advisor to the Oxford based SME FitnessGenes (November 2015 to present).