Ivan Low Cherh Chiet (Singapore)

Ivan is a Senior Lecturer and Education Director in the Department of Physiology, NUS Medicine. He is the founding Master of NUS’s first sports-themed hostel, Valour House, and also a primary member of the Human Potential Translational Research Programme in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS. He teaches medical and life sciences students and leads curriculum design for adult learning CET courses on topics related to exercise physiology and health. He is a strong proponent of contextualized and experiential learning and has received multiple Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards as well as NUS Honour roll in Teaching Excellence. In addition to his teaching commitments, Ivan runs a Human Performance and Applied Physiology laboratory in NUS and his main research interests lie in the area of thermoregulation and fluid balance to enhance human performance and cognition. He has a provisional patent filed for an ear-based core temperature monitoring system and has multiple grants and publications in the field of thermal physiology and brain functions. Ivan is also an avid marathoner who has qualified and competed in the prestigious Boston marathon.