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Mark Hamer graduated in Sport and Exercise Science (1996) from The University of Birmingham, completed an MSc in Sports Sciences (1999) at Brunel University and later received his PhD in Exercise Physiology from De Montfort University (2002). He spent eleven years at UCL as a researcher in Epidemiology and Public Health funded by the British Heart Foundation before taking up the role of Professor in Exercise as Medicine at Loughborough University in 2015. He later returned to UCL in 2019 as Professor in Sport and Exercise Medicine.

He is a member of the ESRC Grant Assessment Panel. He has been recognised as a Highly Cited Researcher in 2018 and 2019, demonstrated by the production of multiple highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year (Cross-Field) in Web of Science.

Dr Ahmed Hankir works as an Academic Clinical Fellow in General Adult Psychiatry at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in the UK.

He holds academic posts as Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Mental Health Research in association with Cambridge University and Academic Clinical Fellow in General Adult Psychiatry at King's College London. In recognition of his research and scholarly outputs and his services to public engagement and education (he has lectured to over 75,000 people in 19 countries on five continents worldwide) Dr Hankir was was appointed Visiting Professor of Academic Psychiatry at the Carrick Institute for Graduate Studies in Cape Canaveral, USA.

​Born in Belfast and raised in Dublin and England, he moved to Lebanon where he spent his formative years. When the country was ravaged by civil war, he was forced to leave his family behind at 17 years of age and returned to the UK where he started off as a janitor. He went on to graduate from Manchester University Medical School.

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