He received his doctorate in Neuroscience at the University of Queensland in 2001, and took an Isaac Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta before holding academic positions at the University of New South Wales. He is currently based at the University of Queensland, where he is the Director of the Research Centre for Sensorimotor Performance. He has broad interests in how exercise affects the Central Nervous System, and particular interests in the use of non-invasive nerve and brain stimulation to assess acute and chronic exercise effects on corticospinal tract function.