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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.

Academic cardiology with an interest in the clinical science of cardiometabolic disease, cardiovascular risk and prevention, and drug development.