Dr Keith Lyons

Keith has been involved in high performance sport since the late 1970s. He has had an interest in and passion for educational technology. Keith moved to Australia in 2002 to work at the Australian Institute of Sport. He has been involved in IACSS since 2005.

Dr Bruce Mason

Bruce started out his working career as a physical education teacher in NSW schools after two years in the army as a national service officer. The combination of training as a physical education teacher together with a science degree from Sydney University in mathematics, was a great preparation for his graduate studies at the University of Oregon where he graduated with a doctoral degree in Biomechanics in 1980. Bruce worked several years at Wollongong University before coming to the AIS to head up the Biomechanics Department in 1982.

Bruce’s major emphasis at the AIS has been with the sport of swimming, providing biomechanical support throughout that period to the AIS Swimming squad as well as to the Australian swim team from the early 1990’s through until 2002. As recognition of his work in the Biomechanics of Swimming, Bruce was awarded an OAM in 2002, an Australian Sports Medal in 2000 and the major award of the International Society of Biomechanics in Sport, “the Geoffrey Dyson Memorial Lecture” in 2000 at the annual conference of the society in Hong Kong. Bruce has in January, 2006, taken over the reins of the Aquatics Testing Training and Research Unit at the Australian Institute of Sport.