Dr Ken van Someren

Ken has extensive professional experience in higher education, high-performance sport and industry. He is currently a lecturer and researcher at Atlantic Technological University and consults to industry on human performance and product innovation.
Prior to moving to Ireland, Ken was Head of Physiology and then Director of Sport Sciences at the English Institute of Sport (now the UK Sports Institute), leading support services, research and innovation. He subsequently led the GSK Human Performance Lab, an innovation centre conducting industry R&D. More recently, he founded a performance innovation business, consulting to high-performance sport and industry.
Ken is also a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences (CASES), where he previously served as a board member and chair of the Division of Sport and Performance.