Lorcan Daly

Lorcan Daly is an Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Sport and Health Science at the Faculty of Science and Health. His research focuses on exercise physiology, aging athletes, and recovery strategies in sports like Gaelic football and indoor rowing. He holds a PhD in Physical conditioning and fatigue recovery in Gaelic games (2022).

• Education: PhD in Physiology (2022)

His research explores physiological adaptations in aging athletes, particularly elite indoor rowers over 50 years old, and examines how recovery strategies impact performance in Gaelic games. He employs machine learning techniques to predict athlete performance and attenuate fatigue.

His articles analyze topics like aging physiology, recovery tactics, and the application of synthetic data in sports analytics. Notably, he has studied a 92-year-old world champion rower, highlighting extraordinary aging resilience.

Media coverage includes discussions on his work with athletes like Paul Gallen and Denis Crowley, emphasizing lessons from aging physiology for health and fitness.