Associate Professor
Rob Robergs
This person does not currently hold a position at QUT.
Personal details
Keywords
muscle metabolism, disease prevention, environmental physiology, sports physiology, exercise performance, indirect calorimetry, human ventilation, contractile power
Research field
Sports science and exercise
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2020
Professional memberships and associations
Accredited Exercise Physiologist (AEP); Academic member, Exercise and Sports Sciences Australia (ESSA)
Teaching
Robert has a diverse teaching background, spanning subjects of; introductory exercise physiology, advanced exercise physiology, bioenergetics, laboratory procedures in exercise physiology, metabolic biochemistry, laboratory procedures in metabolic biochemistry, cardiac rehabilitation, exercise prescription, exercise endocrinology, environmental physiology, clinical exercise physiology, research methods and statistics, and LabVIEW data flow programming.
A considerable component of Robert's teaching load has been the supervision of post-graduate research students. Collectively, Robert has supervised more than 50 PhD students, 10 Masters students, and 5 Honours students across the US and Australian higher education systems.
Publications
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A complete list of publications is available at: https://www.qut.edu.au/about/our-people/academic-profiles/rob.robergs
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patient Care: The Role of an Accredited Exercise Physiologist and Interprofessional Practice
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Adjunct Professor Fiona Naumann, Dr Robert Mullins, Professor Natalie Bradford
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Understanding the Physiological Demands and the Role of Exercise in Esports (2024)
- When Looks Matter: Errors in Decision-Making in the Health and Fitness Industry in a World of Asymmetric Information and Bounded Rationality (2024)
- The Complex Reality of VO2 Kinetics to Steady State: Reassessment of the Models Used to Quantify and Interpret VO2 Kinetics, Steady State, and Time to Steady State (2017)
Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)
- Individual variability of non-linear VO2 Responses during incremental exercise: Insight from VO2max, electromyography, and VO2 kinetics (2023)
- A Comparison of Homografts and Bovine Jugular Vein Conduits in the Pulmonary Position in Patients Younger than 20 Years of Age (2022)
- Retrospective Chart Review of Holter Monitoring and Exercise Stress Testing at Two Queensland Rural Hospitals (2020)
- The Behavioural Economics of Organizational Inefficiency: The Example of the New Zealand Fitness Industry (2020)
The supervisions listed above are only a selection.