Prof. Baltzopoulos is Head of the Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences (RISES) at Liverpool John Moores University since February 2016. His academic career started at Liverpool University where he completed a PhD on knee joint biomechanics after his undergraduate studies at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki in Greece. He was then appointed as Lecturer in Biomechanics in 1990 at the University of Liverpool. He moved to Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) as a Reader in Biomechanics in 1995 and after a brief period as Associate Professor at the University of Thessaly in Greece between 1999-2001, he returned to the School of Healthcare Sciences in the Faculty of Science and Engineering of MMU as Professor of Biomechanics. He moved to Brunel University London in 2011 where he was was appointed to a Chair in Biomechanics in the Division of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences and he was the Director of Research in the Department of Life Sciences and the Director of the Centre for Sports Medicine and Human Performance (2014-2016) in the College of Health and Life Sciences. His main research interests and work are focused on the biomechanics of the musculoskeletal system.