Dr. trent Stellingwerff

Dr Trent Stellingwerff serves as Chief Performance Officer (CPO) at the Canadian Sport Institute Pacific (Victoria, Canada), joining CSI Pacific in 2011. In this role, he directs the health & performance staff, and has oversite of CSI Pacific R&D and all special projects. He directs several different research projects across different sport performance discipline areas, with Master’s, Phd and Post-Doctorate students involved. He has also provided physiology expertise to Canada’s National Athletics (Track and Field), Rowing, Triathlon and Mountain bike teams. His primary sport and research focuses are in the field of physiology and nutrition interactions, as well as environmental (altitude and heat) expertise and more recently, into research on female health and performance. He co-chairs the Own The Podium Canadian National Sport Relative Energy Deficiency in Sport (REDs) working group. 

Prior to 2011, Trent was a Senior Scientist in Performance Nutrition for PowerBar at the Nestle Research Center (Lausanne Switzerland). Trent has more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific publications, and authored 10-book chapters, in the areas of exercise physiology, skeletal muscle metabolism, sports nutrition and performance. Trent has been an invited expert presenter and author for many international nutrition consensus statement meetings with the IOC (International Olympic Committee), FINA (Swimming), UCI (Cycling) and World Athletics, and is a member of the International Advisory Board for the IOC Diploma Program in Sports Nutrition and S&C programs. Over the years, Trent has attended and/or serviced athletes and sports over 4 Olympic/Paralympic Games, 4 Commonwealth Games and >15 World Championships across several sports.