• Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of South Wales

Damian Miles Bailey PhD FPVRI FRSC FACSM FTPS
Royal Society Wolfson Professor of Physiology

Damian embarked on a PhD in human physiology while working as the first research physiologist at the British Olympic Medical Centre in collaboration with the University of Oxford. Following postdoctoral training at the Universities of California San Diego, Colorado Health Sciences Center and Heidelberg, he returned to his Welsh roots and is now based at the University of South Wales as the Royal Society Wolfson Professor of Physiology and Director of the Neurovascular Research Laboratory.

His research program is committed to understanding how free radicals impact the human brain and why improving blood flow and oxygen delivery protect against stroke and neurodegeneration. He takes advantage of unique experimental models spanning spaceflight, high-altitude mountaineering, freediving, skydiving, concussion, and (the first) isolated extracorporeal pulsatile-perfusion system to better understand what causes premature brain ageing. He pioneered the direct detection of free radicals across the human brain, providing unique insight into the mechanisms underlying the 'physics-iology' of cerebral oxygen 'sensing'. He is supported by the Royal Society and is also funded to examine how the human brain responds to the challenges of deep spaceflight c/o the European Space Agency and SpaceX.

Damian has published over 400 manuscripts that have attracted in excess of 14,000 citations. His contributions to clinical neuroscience have been formally recognised with prestigious awards and fellowships from the Wellcome Trust, Royal Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, American College of Sports Medicine and The Physiological Society. He works closely with the media and has featured in a number of documentaries (BBC including Horizon Specials, ITV, Channels 4 and 5, Sky). He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Experimental Physiology, Chair of the Life Sciences Working Group, member of the Human Spaceflight and Exploration Science Advisory Committee to the European Space Agency and member of the Space Exploration Advisory Committee to the UK and Swedish National Space Agencies. Damian is also affiliated to Bexorg, Inc. (Yale, USA) focused on the technological development of novel biomarkers of cerebral bioenergetic function in humans.

• –present Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of South Wales

Royal Society Wolfson Fellow/Fellow of The Physiological Society/Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine/Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

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