Rate My Professor David Stensel

Professor David Stensel is Professor of Exercise Metabolism in the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences at Loughborough University, a position he has held since September 2016. He obtained a BA (Hons) in Sport Studies and History and a PGCE in Physical Education and History from the West London Institute of Higher Education in 1986 and 1987, respectively. He then completed an MSc in Physical Education and Sports Science at Loughborough University in 1988 and a PhD, funded by the British Heart Foundation, at the same university in 1993. In 2015, he was awarded Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Stensel's academic career at Loughborough began in 1999 as a Lecturer, advancing to Senior Lecturer (2006-2010), Reader in Exercise Metabolism (2010-2016), and Associate Dean for Research (2016-2022). Prior to this, he served as Assistant Professor in the School of Physical Education at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore from 1993 to 1999. Currently, he chairs the Loughborough University Ethics Review Sub-Committee (since February 2023) and has been a member of the Scientific Committee for the British Nutrition Foundation since March 2015.

Stensel's research specializations encompass exercise metabolism, with particular emphasis on appetite regulation, lipid metabolism, obesity, cardiovascular disease risk factors, and the health benefits of physical activity. He is core-funded by the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, where he co-leads the Lifestyle Theme. His scholarly contributions include editing the third edition of the book Physical Activity and Health: The Evidence Explained (Routledge, 2022) and numerous peer-reviewed articles, such as 'The anti-inflammatory effects of exercise: mechanisms and implications for the prevention and treatment of disease' (2011), 'Influence of resistance and aerobic exercise on hunger, circulating levels of acylated ghrelin, and peptide YY in healthy males' (2009), 'Exercise-induced suppression of acylated ghrelin in humans' (2007), and recent publications like 'The impact of acute exercise on appetite control: current insights and future perspectives' (2023). Since July 2021, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Obesity, underscoring his influence in the field of exercise physiology and metabolic health.