Geoffrey Dyson Lecturer

According to John Disley, one of Geoffrey Dyson's favorite pupils, "He devoted his life to making coaching a science and to exposing the charlatan whose only effective advice was "Do it again, but harder".The Geoffrey Dyson Award of the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports recognizes sport scientists who, throughout their professional careers, bridge the gap between biomechanics research and practice in sport. It is the most prestigious award of ISBS because it is a recognition of individuals who embody and carry out the primary purposes of the Society. The recipient of the Geoffrey Dyson Award delivers a keynote lecture on the opening night of the ISBS annual conference.

Award Criteria:

The candidate must have an international reputation in the field of sports biomechanics.
The candidate must have demonstrated a commitment to the applied nature of Sports Biomechanics and an ability to communicate with both the researcher and the practitioner.
The candidate should be a supporter of ISBS and its primary purposes. Membership and/or direct engagement at conferences/symposia is preferred although not essential.
A condition of acceptance shall be that the candidate delivers personally the Geoffrey Dyson Lecture at the ISBS conference in the following year. The content of the Geoffrey Dyson Lecture must be relevant to an ISBS audience.
The applicant, if selected, is expected to submit a scientific review article of their presented work, or some aspects of it, for publication in ‘Sports Biomechanics’ within 6 months of the award. Upon receipt of the award, the applicant will receive an invite for paper submission from the EIC of Sports Biomechanics, and the EIC will then coordinate the submission and review process in line with standard journal policies.

Nomination Process:

Members can nominate a candidate by sending a letter of support (maximum of 4 pages) to the VP of Awards outlining the research profile and major achievements of the candidate in line with the award criteria listed above. The nominator must also provide a CV of the candidate. The letter of support or CV should also include the candidate’s contact details.

Deadline:

The letter of support and CV must both be submitted to the VP of Awards by the 30th of April.

Further information is available on pages 13-16 of the Manual for Awards of ISBS.

Award Recipients

Year		Conference	Presentation
2025	Dr Glenn Fleisig American Sports Medicine Institute	Doha, Qatar	Biomechanics Might Save Baseball
2024	Dr Jacqueline Alderson University of Western Australia	Salzburg, Austria	Biomechanics in the age of AI: Navigating a discipline at a crossroads
2023	Dr Jill McNitt-Gray University of Southern California, USA	Milwaukee, USA	Make an impact: going full circle together
2022	Dr João Paulo Vilas-Boas University of Porto, Portugal	Liverpool, UK	Swimming biomechanics: from the pool to the lab... and back
2021	Dr Julie Steele University of Wollongong, Australia	Canberra, Australia	Long-term lessons learned in biomechanics
2020	Dr David Lloyd Griffith University, Australia	Online	The future's in-field sports biomechanics: wearables plus modelling compute real-time in vivo tissue loading to prevent and repair musculoskeletal injuries (available to view on the ISBS YouTube channel).
2019	Dr. Michiyoshi Ae Nippon Sport Science University, Japan	Oxford, Ohio, USA	The next steps for expanding and deepening sport biomechanics
2018	Dr Hermann Schwameder University of Salzburg, Austria	Auckland, New-Zealand	Moving on slopes: Issues and challenges from a biomechanical perspective
2017	Dr. Walter Herzog University of Calgary	Cologne, Germany	From Medals to Muscles to Molecules and back to Medals
2016	Dr Patria Hume Auckland University of Technology	Tsukuba, Japan	Motion Matters!
2015	Dr. Richard Smith University of Sydney, Australia	Poitiers, France	Generating and applying knowledge in sports biomechanics: examples from rowing and running
2014	Dr. Drew Harrison University of Limerick, Ireland	Johnson City, TN, USA	Applications of functional data analysis in sport biomechanics
2013	Dr. David Kerwin Cardiff School of Sport, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK	Taipei, Taiwan	Half a century in sports biomechanics: bridging the gap between researchers and practitioners
2012	Dr. Gideon Ariel Ariel Dynamics, San Diego, CA, USA	Melbourne, Australia	Biomechanics from the Big Bang to the Cloud
2011	Dr. Youlian Hong Chengdu Sports University, China	Porto, Portugal	Tai Chi: Movement Characteristics and Prevention of Falls
2010	Dr. Barry Bates University of Oregon, USA	Marquette, MI, USA	Accommodating strategies for preventing chronic lower extremity injuries
2009	Dr. Albert Gollhofer University of Freiburg, Germany	Limerick, Ireland	Functional role of proprioceptive feedback in balance and in reactive movement
2008	Dr. Maurice Yeadon Loughborough University, UK	Seoul, Korea	Applications of Modelling to the improvement of sports technique
2007	Dr. Ross Saunders Edinburgh University, UK	Ouro Preto, Brazil	Rock and roll rhythms in swimming
2006	Dr. Joseph Hamill University Of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA	Salzburg, Austria	Overuse injuries in running: Do complex analyses help our understanding?
2005	Dr. Roger Bartlett University of Otago, New Zealand	Beijing, China	Future Trends in Sports Biomechanics
2004	Dr. Benno Nigg University of Calgary, Canada	Ottawa, Canada	Impact forces and injury - a new paradigm
2002	Dr. Jesus Dapena Indiana University, Bloomington, USA	Caceres, Spain	The Evolution of High Jumping Technique: Biomechanical Analysis
2001	Dr. Peter Cavanagh Penn State University, University Park, USA	San Francisco, USA	Biomechanics on The International Space Station: The Past, Present, And Future
2000	Dr. Bruce R. Mason Australian Insitute of Sport, Canberra, Australia	Hong Kong, China	Providing a service to an elite national sports programme
1999	Dr. James Hay Department of Sport and Exercise Science, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand	Perth, Australia	The takeoff in the long jump and other running jumps
1998	Dr. Herbert Hatze Department of Biomechanics, University of Vienna, Austria	Konstanz, Germany	Biomechanics of Sports - Selected Examples of Successful Applications and Future Perspectives
1997	Dr. Pekka Luhtanen Research Institute for Olympic Sports, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland	Denton, TX, USA	How Biomechanics Research Can Help the Coach
1996	Dr. David A. Winter University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada	Funchal, Madeira, Portugal	Total Body Kinetics: Our Diagnostic Key to Human Movement
1995	Dr. Patrick J. Bishop University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada	Thunder Bay, Canada	Biomechanics of Cervical Quadriplegia. A Review
1994	Dr. Gert-Peter Bruggemann Institute for Athletics and Gymnastics, German Sport University, Cologne, Germany	Siofok, Hungary	Biomechanical Considerations on Jumping in Sports - An Approach to a Fundamental Understanding
1993	Dr. Doris I. Miller University of Western Ontario, Canada	Amherst, MA, USA	The Challenge of Communicating with Coaches by Computer
1992	Dr. Vladimir Zatsiorsky Central Institute of Physical Culture, Moscow, Russia and Pennsylvania State University, USA	Milano, Italy	Biomechanical Basis of Strength Training
1991	Dr. Elizabeth Roberts University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA	Ames, IA, USA	Tracking Velocity in Motion
1989	Dr. Bruce Elliott University of Western Australia, Australia	Melbourne, Australia	Biomechanics: Its Role in Sports Performance
1988	Dr. Marlene Adrian University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA	Bozeman, MT, USA	Quasars and Quintessence
1987	Dr. Gerhard Hochmuth Research Institute for Physical Culture and Sport, Leipzig, GDR	Athens, Greece	Biomechanical Movement Analysis Regarding the Aspect of Energy Input

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