Assoc Prof Nigel A.S. Taylor

BHMS(Hons) Queensland, M.Sc. London (U.K.), Ph.D. Simon Fraser (Canada)

Position:

• Associate Professor in School of Health Sciences

Teaching:

• Undergraduate Physiology and Exercise Physiology
• Postgraduate research supervision
• International research supervision (visiting fellows)

Research Interests:

Human stress physiology and with particular research emphases within exercise physiology, human temperature regulation and work-based physical and physiological assessments. Nigel's research training was based in both Europe and North America, and he still collaborates with Defence organisations and Universities from both continents. This research often focuses upon the interface between the worker and the environment, and how human performance may be optimised under physical and environmental extremes. He has an extensive research background, with more than 300 publications.

The Human Performance Laboratories participate in a five-way research collaboration (Environmental Physiology and Ergonomics Research Exchange) involving laboratories in France (Université Louis Pasteur), Japan (Kobe University), Slovenia (Jozef Stefan Institute) and the United Kingdom (University of Portsmouth). He also collaborates with the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (Australia).

Affiliations:

International research administration:
(i)  International Council for Science: Co-Chair of the Section on Thermal Physiology of the International Commission on Comparative Physiology of the International Union of Physiological Sciences.

(ii) Editorial boards and review panels:
Member of the International Editorial Board for four refereed journals:
      European Journal Applied Physiology
      Journal of Physiological Anthropology
      Journal of Human-Environment System
      Journal of Thermal Biology
      Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
      The Open Ergonomics Journal
      The Open Sport Medicine Journal.
Reviewer for 25 International and two National refereed journals.

(iii) Conference administration:
Organising Committee of the International Conference on Environmental Ergonomics (1990-present).
International Conference on Physiological & Cognitive Performance in Extreme Environments (2000).
Organiser and convenor of the 2001 Thermal Physiology Symposium (IUPS; Wollongong).
Scientific Committee of Integrated Conference on Pharmacology and Physiology of Thermoregulation (2004-present).
Co-organiser of the Twelfth International Conference on Environmental Ergonomics (2007, Slovenia).

Publications:

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date

Stocks, J.M., Taylor, N.A.S., Tipton, M.J., and Greenleaf, J.E. (2004). Human physiological responses to cold exposure. Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine. 75(5):444-457.

Patterson, M.J., Stocks, J.M., and Taylor, N.A.S. (2004). Humid heat acclimation does not elicit a preferential sweat redistribution towards the limbs. American Journal of Physiology: Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology. 286(3):R512-R518.

Fogarty, A.L., Armstrong, K.A., Gordon, C.J., Groeller, H., Woods, B.F., Stocks, J.M., and Taylor, N.A.S. (2004). Cardiovascular and thermal consequences of protective clothing: a comparison of clothed and unclothed states. Ergonomics. 47(10):1073-1086.

Patterson, M.J., Stocks, J.M., and Taylor, N.A.S. (2004). Sustained and generalised extracellular fluid expansion following heat acclimation. Journal of Physiology ( London). 559(1):327-334.

Gordon, C.J., Haley, C.D., McLennan, P.L., Tipton, M.J., Mekjavic, I.B.,and Taylor, N.A.S. (2004). An open-loop model for investigating mammalian thermosensitivity. Journal of Thermal Biology. 29(7-8):703-707.