Environmental Physiology & Ergonomics Research Exchange

The Environmental Physiology and Ergonomics Research Exchange (EPERE) is a cooperative project involving six internationally-recognised laboratories from Australia, France, Japan, Slovenia, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

Project aims

  • to build upon and maintain the EPERE consortium as an international Centre of Excellence in human, environmental physiology research
  • to train talented young researchers in a range of multidisciplinary skills essential to understanding integrated human physiology
  • to expand research funding opportunities for each laboratory
  • to share research expertise, skills and ideas
  • to facilitate access to larger research teams, resources and expertise
  • to strengthen the links between the basic sciences and its translation into wider societal needs
  • to facilitate research exchanges among the five laboratories.

Collaborators

The Thermal Physiology Laboratory of the University of Wollongong (Australia).
Laboratory leader: to be advised

The Environmental Physiology Laboratory of the Jozef Stefan Institute (Slovenia).
Laboratory leader: Igor B. Mekjavic

The Human and Applied Physiology Laboratory of the University of Portsmouth (U.K.).
Laboratory leader: Michael J. Tipton

Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory of the Université Louis Pasteur (France).
Laboratory leader: André Dufour

Laboratory of Applied Human Physiology of the Kobe University (Japan).
Laboratory leader: Narihiko Kondo

Department of Environmental Physiology of the Royal Institute of Technology
Head of Department: Ola Eiken