We are pleased to welcome Samuel Lewis as a PhD Scholar working in collaboration with CAPE, Queensland University of Technology and the Queensland Academy of Sport.
Tell us about your background
I am originally born and raised in Canada where I completed my Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology with Honours at the University of Waterloo. While in Canada I was always involved in some sort of sport with my favourite being Canadian football but also quite fond of baseball, archery and powerlifting. After graduating my bachelor’s, I flew over to Germany where I completed my Master of High-Performance Sport at Saarland University. There I was fortunate enough to intern at the Olympic centre in Bavaria and Saarland/Rhineland-Palatinate. In the final stage of my studies there, I was fortunate enough to internship at the High Performance Lab at the University College Dublin.
What are your research areas of interest?
My favourite areas of research are biomechanics and recovery.
What made you apply for a PhD scholarship with CAPE, QUT and QAS?
Coming in with the mindset that perfection is impossible but the drive to reach it being as strong as ever, the opportunity to be part of a team that looks to make a vast improvement in the technology of compression garments to help athletes practice and perform to their best capabilities and add on to the existing scientific literature, was a no brainer for myself.
What are your thoughts on custom fit compression for athletes?
Based on the current literature about compression garments, custom fit compression garments for athletes have the potential to be more reliable with regards to their compression and improve upon the performance and recovery benefits along with biomechanical considerations that are not yet extensively assessed.
What do you hope to achieve in your research?
At the conclusion of my PhD, I hope to assess and fill some gaps in the literature concerning the reliability, performance, and recovery differences between individualized compression garments and what is currently available.
