Co-Director of College Research Institutes, College of Medicine & Health

Room G104, George Building, Normal Site

J.P.Moore@bangor.ac.uk

(01248) 383645

Jonathan has a BSc (Hons) in Biological Sciences (Physiology) from the University of Edinburgh, and a PhD in Cardiovacular Physiology from the University of Leeds. After several years working as a sport and exercise practitioner, including as a Senior Physiologist with Team GB at the 1996 Summer Olympics, he returned to academia and has worked at the University of Salford, Leeds School of Medicine, and Huddersfield University. Jonathan joined Bangor University in 2008.

Jonathan teaches human, exercise and environmental physiology on sport and exercise science undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in the School of Psychology and Sport Sciences. He is a member of the Applied Human Physiology research group.

Jonathan's research focuses primarily on understanding how blood pressure is regulated, and the importance this has for human circulatory control during exercise and other physiological stressors, such as high altitude hypoxia.   

Neural control and autonomic regulation of the heart and blood vessels. Having spent many years studying reflexes from vagal afferent nerve endings in the heart and pulmonary arteries, Jonathan is particularly interested in how these baroreceptors regulate sympathetic nervous system activity in health and disease.

Visiting Researcher, Institute for Sports Science, Innsbruck University

Visting Fellow, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Centre / Institute of Exercise and Environmental Medicine, Dallas Presbyterian Hospital 

Research Fellow, School of Medicine, University of Leeds

Major Funding Bodies (ca. £170,000)

• £ 53,577 Sept 2015. Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Research Scholarship Award (competitive) co-applicant. CO₂ sensitivity and inspiratory muscle fatigue in patients with obstructive sleep apnea
• £ 59,994, Dec 2010. Welsh Government, National Institute for Social Care and Health Research PhD Studentship (competitive) principal applicant. The impact of high intensity interval training on cardiac risk in cardiac rehabilitation patients: a randomized controlled study
• £ 59,706, Jan 2009. Wales Office of Research and Development for Health and Social Care (WORD) Health Studentship Award (competitive) co-applicant. Cardiovascular fitness in patients with rheumatoid arthritis 

Charitable funding Bodies (ca. £107,000)

• $ 10,000 USD, November 2018. Wilderness Medical Society Hultgren Grant (competitive) principal applicant. Unpicking the stimuli for high altitude sympathetic activation
• £ 2000, May 2018. The Gilchrist Educational Trust Expedition Grant (competitive) principal applicant. High altitude adaptation in natives of the Peruvian Andes
• £ 67,955, Sept 2015. Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) Charitable Funds Committee (competitive) co-applicant. The Effects of Dietary Nitrate Supplementation on Improving Blood Vessel Function in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis
• £ 5,375, May 2011. Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) Charitable Funds Committee (competitive) principal applicant. The impact of high intensity interval training on cardiac risk in cardiac rehabilitation patients: a randomized controlled study
• £ 22,000, Sept 2010. Gwynedd Hospital League of Friends/Cyfeillion Ysybty Gwynedd (competitive) co-applicant. Mechanisms and treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Institutional funding (£280, 000)

• £61,289, June 2020. Bangor University & Cardiff Metropolitan University. PhD Bursary, principal applicant. The Physiological role of pulmonary artery baroreceptors 
• £ 55,000, May 2016. Institute for Research Excellence in Sport and Exercise (Bangor University & Cardiff Metropolitan University) PhD Bursary (competitive) principal applicant. Sympathetic Activation during Hypoxia: cardiovascular control in lowlanders and high altitude natives
• £ 55,000, May 2015. Institute for Research Excellence in Sport and Exercise (Bangor University & Cardiff Metropolitan University) PhD Bursary (Competitive) co-applicant. The effect of age and training on sympathetic control of blood pressure
• £ 55,000, May 2013. Bangor University, School of Sport Health and Exercise Sciences PhD Bursary (Competitive) co-applicant. The Effect of Exercise and Ageing on Morphology and Biomarkers of Knee Articular Cartilage in Healthy Humans
• £ 55,000, March 2010. Bangor University, School of Sport Health and Exercise Sciences PhD Bursary (Competitive) co-applicant.Mechanisms and treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

International Mobility Awards (ca. £10, 000)

• £ 700, May 2018. The Physiological Society Travel Award (Non-competitive)
• £ 1000, May 2018. Bangor University Santander Universities Research & Study Mobility Award (Competitive)
• £ 7840, July 2014. The British Heart Foundation (BHF) Travel Fellowship (competitive)
• £ 700, June 2014. The Physiological Society Travel Award (Non-competitive)

Applications are encouraged from well-qualified students with a general interest in human, environmental and exercise physiology and/or a specific interest in neural regulation of the heart and blood vessels.

Teaching and Related Activity   

Teach and examine courses at:

• Level 4 – JXH1054  Human Physiology
• Level 5 – JXH2041  Project Proposal
• Level 6 – JXH3001  Research Project JXH3054 DIssertation,
• Level 7 - JXH4401 Performance Physiology, JXH4405 Research Project Proposal, JXH4406 Dissertation Proposal, 

Postgraduate Research Supervision and Related Activity

Doctor in Philosophy

• Mr Michiel Ewalts (Primary supervisor; commenced studies September 2020)
• Mr. Abdelbare Al Gamode (Co-Supervisor; commenced studies in April 2019)
• Mr. Dennis Wakeham (Co-supervisor; commenced studies in October 2015)
• Dr. Lydia Simpson (Primary supervisor; Sympathetic nervous system activity and autonomic regulation of resting blood pressure at high altitude, awarded July 2020)
• Dr. Harry Roberts (Primary supervisor: The effect of exercise and aging on morphology and biomarkers of knee articular cartilage in healthy humans, awarded September 2017 )
• Dr. Yael Pernick (Primary supervisor; Moderate-to-high intensity interval training versus continuous training in real life, centre based, cardiac rehabilitation, awarded May 2017)
• Dr. Christopher Earing (Co-supervisor; Factors associated with the severity of apnoea- hypopnea Index in obstructive sleep apnea, awarded 2015,)
• Dr. Jennifer Cooney (Co supervisor; awarded 2013 Cardio-respiratory fitness, obesity and traditional cardiovascular disease risk factors in patients with rheumatoid arthritis )

Master in Research

• Mr. Tom James (Supervisor, awarded in 2017)
• Ms. Emily Louise Dunn (Co-supervisor, awarded in 2017)
• Mr Tomos Jones (Co-supervisor, awarded in 2017)
• Mr. Kyle Bendell (Supervisor, awarded 2014)
• Ms. Katherine Avery (Supervisor, awarded 2014)

Internal Examiner

• Dr. Gabriella Rossetti (2019)
• Dr. Helen Hanstock (2016)
• Dr. Julian Owen (2015)
• Dr. Kostas Papadopoulos (2012)
• Dr. Jennifer Brierley (2012)
• Dr. Justin Lawley (2012)
• Dr. Andrea Bosio (2009)