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:
Review Editor:
European Journal Applied Physiology
Editorial Board memberships:
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

(iii) Conference administration:
International Conference on Environmental Ergonomics:
Scientific Committee: 1990-present
Co-organiser: Twelfth International Conference on Environmental Ergonomics (2007, Slovenia)
Integrated Conference on Pharmacology and Physiology of Thermoregulation (2004-present):
Scientific Committee: 2004-present:
Organiser and convenor of Thermal Physiology Symposium (2001; Wollongong).

Publications:

Searchable RIS publications from 2000 to date

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.

Chaunchaiyakul, R., Groeller, H., Clarke, J.R., and Taylor, N.A.S. (2004). The impact of ageing and habitual physical activity on static respiratory work at rest and during exercise. American Journal of Physiology: Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology. 287(6):L1098-L1106.

Cotter, J.D., and Taylor, N.A.S. (2005). Distribution of cutaneous sudomotor and alliesthesial thermosensitivity in mildly heat-stressed humans: an open-loop approach. Journal of Physiology (London). 565(1):335-345.

Taylor, N.A.S. (2006). Ethnic differences in thermoregulation: genotypic versus phenotypic heat adaptation. Journal of Thermal Biology. 31(1-2):90-104.

Taylor, N.A.S., Caldwell, J.N., van den Heuvel, A.M.J., and Patterson, M.J. (2008). To cool, but not too cool: that is the question: immersion cooling for hyperthermia. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. 40(11):1962-1969.

Casa, D.J., Kenny, G.P., and Taylor, N.A.S. (2010). Immersion treatment for exertional hyperthermia: cold or temperate water? Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise. 42(7):1246-1252.

Machado-Moreira, C.A., and Taylor, N.A.S. (2012). Psychological sweating from glabrous and non-glabrous skin surfaces under thermoneutral conditions. Psychophysiology. 49:369-374.