Richie Goulding

Richie Goulding is an Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, affiliated with both the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences (Physiology Department) and the AMS - Musculoskeletal Health. He holds a post-Doctoral Fellow position in the Laboratory for Myology. His research focuses on physiological determinants of exercise tolerance, mitochondrial dysfunction in type 1 diabetes, and exercise bioenergetics. Goulding completed his PhD at Liverpool Hope University and conducted postdoctoral research in Kobe, Japan, under the Japan Society for the Promotion of Sciences.

Key research areas include the role of exercise training in mitigating mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative metabolism regulation, and age-related declines in physical capacity. He has published extensively on topics such as skeletal muscle adaptations, post-exertional malaise in Long COVID, and critical power thresholds in exercise physiology. Goulding teaches courses on applied exercise physiology and training aging/disuse-related issues.

His work integrates experimental physiology, clinical studies, and machine learning to explore exercise performance and health outcomes. Recent studies emphasize mitochondrial health in diabetes, muscle abnormalities in chronic conditions, and predictive modeling of exercise responses.