Rob Lamberts is a professor in the Department of Human Movement Sciences at the University of Groningen and the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands. He has worked for the past 20 years in applied exercise physiology (mainly in Cape Town, South Africa), with a specific interest in cycling and other endurance sports, such as road and trail running. In the last three years, his research also focused on the effects of the menstrual cycle on performance, the effects of durability of performance, and the interaction effect of these two factors on performance in female cyclists. This latest work was done in close collaboration with 3 Master students and Assoc Prof Dionne Noordhof, which is the reason why he will give a combined keynote lecture with Dionne this year.
In addition to his research work, Rob has a background in training and testing of well-trained to elite cyclists, providing practical support and advice to elite athletes; he teaches on the UCI coaching course; and he is part of an advisory board at the International Testing Agency (anti-doping) on a project linked to the UCI. In addition, he is an associate editor at the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance and a member of the scientific board at the European College of Sport Science.
Over the last 20 years, Rob has published more than 120 peer-reviewed research articles, of which most focused on applied exercise physiology in high-performance cycling.