Dr Lee Romer
Reader - Human and Applied Physiology

Summary

Dr Lee Romer is a Reader in Human and Applied Physiology at Brunel University of London. His research examines how respiratory function influences exercise tolerance in health and disease.

Following his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Brunel, Dr Romer worked as a physiologist at the British Olympic Medical Centre before undertaking his doctoral research at the University of Birmingham. He subsequently completed post-doctoral research at the John Rankin Laboratory of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA, before returning to Brunel in 2004. He was appointed Reader in 2009 and served as Head of Department (formerly Division) of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences from 2014 to 2018.

Dr Romer has authored more than 100 journal articles, invited reviews and book chapters, including contributions to publications associated with the American College of Sports Medicine, American Physiological Society, American Thoracic Society and International Olympic Committee Medical Commission. He is currently Senior Editor of Experimental Physiology and has held editorial positions with several other international journals. He is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and The Physiological Society and an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences. His work has attracted more than 9,000 citations, with a Google Scholar h-index of 47.