Dietary carbohydrate and the endurance athlete – contemporary perspectives

Gareth Wallis is a professor of exercise metabolism and nutrition and the head of research and knowledge transfer within the School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Birmingham, UK. He received his PhD in exercise metabolism and nutrition from the University of Birmingham, UK in 2006 and undertook his postdoctoral training in integrative biology at the University of California-Berkley from 2006–2008. Gareth then worked in new product research at GlaxoSmithKline, within a scientific program developing new nutritional products and health claims. He now conducts academic research in exercise science with a major focus on nutrition and metabolism. His goal is to better understand how nutrition can be manipulated to enhance metabolic or adaptive responses to exercise, with a particular focus on macronutrients and their roles in performance, training adaptation and health. His research and approaches adopted aim to generate the translational knowledge needed for practical application within sport, exercise, and health nutrition settings.