William E. Amonette, PhD, is an assistant professor and director
of the exercise and health sciences program in the Department of
Clinical Health and Applied Sciences at the University of Houston–Clear
Lake. Prior to becoming an academician, Amonette served as an assistant
strength and conditioning coach for the Chinese national basketball team
at the Beijing Olympic Training Center. He was also previously the
assistant strength and conditioning coach and rehabilitation coordinator
for the NBA’s Houston Rockets; an astronaut strength, conditioning, and
rehabilitation specialist; an exercise physiologist; and an integrated
testing specialist for the Countermeasures Evaluation and Validation
Project for Wyle Laboratories at NASA–Johnson Space Center.
Amonette earned his PhD at the University of Texas Medical Branch in
rehabilitation sciences, with a research emphasis in clinical exercise
physiology. He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist
(CSCS) though the National Strength and Conditioning Association, an
associate editor for the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research,
and an ad hoc peer reviewer for many scientific journals related to
exercise and sport science.
Amonette’s research interests include physiological and mechanical
predictors of sports performance and injury. He also has clinical
research interest in neuroendocrine and metabolic responses to exercise
in patients with traumatic brain injuries and the effect of novel
exercise interventions on rehabilitation outcomes in people with
disabilities. He has published numerous scientific and academic
peer-reviewed journal articles, reports, and book chapters and has
presented his work nationally and internationally.
Kirk L. English, PhD, is a senior scientist with JES Tech LLC, is
a NASA contractor, and works in the Exercise Physiology and
Countermeasures Laboratory at NASA–Johnson Space Center. He is also a
research scientist in the department of nutrition and metabolism at the
University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) and an adjunct professor at
the University of Houston–Clear Lake, where he teaches a graduate course.
English, who is a member of the National Strength and Conditioning
Association, American College of Sports Medicine, and American
Physiological Society, received his PhD in rehabilitation sciences from
UTMB. During his graduate studies, he was awarded a competitive
three-year NASA/Texas Space Grant Consortium Graduate Fellowship.
English has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, technical
reports, conference abstracts, and book chapters on exercise, nutrition,
aging, spaceflight, and evidence-based practice in the field of exercise
science.
In his work with NASA, English’s research focuses on the prevention of
spaceflight-induced decreases in skeletal muscle mass, strength, and
performance. His work includes the development and validation of novel
exercise protocols and hardware that are used both on the ground and
during spaceflight. He also conducts all pre- and post-flight strength
testing of American, European, Canadian, and Japanese International
Space Station crewmembers and serves as the liaison and subject matter
expert on this topic to NASA’s international partners.
William J. Kraemer, PhD, is a full professor in the department of
human sciences at The Ohio State University. He has also held full
professorships at the University of Connecticut, Ball State University,
and The Pennsylvania State University, including each medical school.
Dr. Kraemer is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine, the
National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), and the American
College of Nutrition. Among his many professional achievements, he is a
recipient of the NSCA’s Lifetime Achievement Award. He is editor in
chief of the NSCA's Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research,
an editor of the European Journal of Applied Physiology, and an
associate editor of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition.
He holds many other editorial board positions in the field. Kraemer has
published more than 450 peer-reviewed papers in scientific literature
and has published 12 books. He received the 2014 Expertscape Award,
which named him the nation’s top expert in resistance training research
over the past 10 years. With almost 40,000 citations on Harzing’s
Publish or Perish lists, his scholarly impact is impressive.