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Dr Carly McKay completed her BKin (2006) and MSc in Sport Medicine (2008) at the University of Calgary (Canada), and her PhD in Kinesiology (2011) at Western University (Canada). She is currently the Director of Research at Podium Analytics (London) and a Reader in Injury Prevention and Deputy Director of the Centre for Health, Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport (Chi2PS) at the University of Bath. She is an executive member of the UK Collaborating Centre on Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport (UKCCIIS), which is one of 11 International Research Centres for the Prevention of Injury and Protection of Athlete Health supported by the International Olympic Committee. She serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport. Carly’s research focuses on the role of psychosocial and behavioural factors in sport injury risk and recovery, and using behaviour change approaches to support injury prevention strategies. She also has experience implementing large-scale prevention initiatives in elite and grassroots sport, as well as driving policy change in national and international sport organisations.

PhD graduate from Queen Mary University of London, my research was undertaken in Professor Silvia Marino’s brain tumour research group. Specifically, I was part of a team researching Glioblastoma Multiforme, the most prevalent and deadly adult brain tumour. Throughout my PhD I developed my wet lab skills and learnt to code for the purpose of analysing high throughput sequencing data such as RNAseq and DNA methylation array data. Since finishing my PhD I have worked as a Bioinformatician in the Genome Centre at the Blizard Institute, QMUL, where I have built up a experience in a very wide variety of Bioinformatics pipelines and analyses for a variety of datasets.

I am a Director of Machine Learning Research at Cambridge Cognition, where I improve the products using language technology. I am also a Science Lead at the ARVA non-profit, where I lead research efforts in AI safety. I participated in the development of the BLOOM large language model and led the organization of the End-to-End NLG shared task which set a new research agenda for neural text generation. My research was published in well-regarded journals and conferences, such as Interspeech, NAACL and EMNLP.

Aimee is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Technology and Biomechanics as part of the [Sports Technology Research Group](https://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/sti/).  Her research examines the human-sport equipment interaction using biomechanics and advanced data analysis techniques in particular for women.    Aimee graduated from the University of Bath in 2008 with a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science including a professional placement. During her placement year, she worked as a research assistant in the Biomechanics Research Lab at the University of Wollongong, Australia.  Aimee went on to graduate with an MSc with distinction in Sports Biomechanics at Loughborough University before pursuing her PhD titled ‘Coach informed biomechanical analysis of the golf swing’ at the Sports Technology Institute.  Whilst at Loughborough Aimee also held a post as an Institute of Sport Research (ISR) Research Associate with Nanyang Technological University Singapore prior to becoming a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in the [Human Performance Laboratory](https://www.biomechanigg.com/testimonials) at the University Calgary, Canada.          Over her research career, Aimee has worked with a number of industry partners such as PING, Lululemon, adidas, CCM, C-Motion (Visual3D) on a variety of research projects delivering biomechanics expertise to drive product development in sports/areas such as running, golf, ice hockey skates and sports bra design.

I graduated as mechanical engineer in 2004 from Polytechnic University of Turin, and obtained my PhD degree from the University of Bath (UK) in 2008. My PhD project was covered by an article with dedicated front cover in EUREKA magazine (May 2005) with title Devices that absorb energy on demand. I really enjoyed research, and formed a clear passion for the development of new manufacturing processes. As such, I was hired as post-doctoral researcher in Cambridge University (UK) in 2008 to carry out ground-breaking work in a new field, now known as Additive Manufacturing. In Cambridge I published key papers, submitted a patent (now granted), and formed a spin-off company with co-workers (Laser Fusion Tech.) to commercialize the processes I had developed. Despite the commercial attraction, academic research remained my true passion; in summer 2012 I accepted the post of Assistant Professor in Trinity College Dublin and I started to develop my own group. In 2013 I became Marie Curie Fellow (CIG scheme), and in 2014 I was awarded of a key grant from the European Space Agency (Technology Research Programme - TRP). I was the very first PI in Trinity to have secured an award of this size from ESA. The project was featured in the national innovation news page of the Irish Times, 19th of January 2015. As an independent PI, I am now a funded investigator in AMBER (the national research centre for advanced materials and bioengineering) and I-Form (the national centre for Advanced Manufacturing). I am now an Associate Member of the international academy of production engineering (CIRP). In summary, I am an emerging leader in Additive Manufacturing with established collaborations in Europe (Ireland, UK, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, France) and the rest of the World (China, US, Canada). In recognition to my research career, I was elected Fellow of Trinity College Dublin (FTCD) in 2019 and nominated Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (FIMMM) in 2022. According to the October 2023 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" led by Stanford University and published by Elsevier, I rank within the top 2% scientists internationally.