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Research Fellow, School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Birmingham

Tim Podlogar has a PhD from exercise metabolism from the University of Birmingham. After his PhD completion he held a postdoctoral position at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Slovenia, where he investigated ketone body and menthol supplementation in extreme environments. At a similar time, he also become an Assistant Professor of Exercise Physiology at the University of Primorska, Slovenia. In late 2021 he returned to the University of Birmingham as a Research Fellow to work under Dr Gareth Wallis on a project looking at effects of heat acclimation on exogenous carbohydrate oxidation rates.

He remains a visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Primorska. In 2022 Tim joined professional cycling team BORA hansgrohe as of of their performance nutritionists. In spare time he is a keen cycling covering more than 20.000 km yearly.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Performance Nutritionist, BORA hansgrohe
  • 2022–present
    Assistant Professor, University of Primorska
  • 2021–present
    Research Fellow, University of Birmingham