Member Profile: Floris Wardenaar, PhD
Wardenaar is an assistant professor at the College of Health Solutions since September 2017 with expertise in Performance Nutrition.
Floris Wardenaar was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Despite the fact that there was no previous history of competitive sports within the family, all the brothers were competitive in different areas of sport. At the age of 14, he started cycling, both on the road and the track. From that moment on his interest in performance nutrition grew. During his second year as a junior cyclist he was selected for the newly formed National track cycling team. As part of his cycling career he collected more than 30 stage places and victories.
Wardenaar studied nutrition and dietetics at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA, Amsterdam Applied University, the Netherlands) with specific interest in sports nutrition. During this bachelor program he followed an internship at the Dutch Olympic Committee (NOC*NSF) writing the brochure: ‘What to know about nutrition and Sydney in preparation for the Olympic Games at Sydney 2000’. Together with his bachelor degree he received his post bachelor degree of sports dietetics which was granted by NOC*NSF.
Following this, Wardenaar started a master’s program at Wageningen University (Wageningen, the Netherlands) in human nutrition and physiology. Subsequently he followed an internship at the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Texas in Austin and wrote his master’s thesis on the interaction between alcohol consumption, exercise and blood glucose levels at SENECA, expert centre of HAN Sports and Exercise Studies at the HAN University of Applied Sciences at Nijmegen. He graduated in 2005 both in nutritional physiology and in nutrigenomics.
At the start of 2006, Wardenaar took up the post of lecturer at the HAN. From that moment he was also asked to cover the sports nutrition position of the professional TVM speed skating team as part of an agreement between this team and HAN Sports and Exercise studies. In 2007 he was added to the nutrition team of the Dutch Olympic Committee. 2012 saw him take on a team leader role as senior lecturer of the expert team Sports and Exercise Nutrition with responsibility for education, research and consultancy within the Institute of Sport and Exercise. During this period, he was also president of the Dutch Association of Sports Dietitians. In September 2012 he commenced his doctoral project in cooperation with Wageningen University, and from 2014-2017 he was team leader of the Team Nutrition of the Dutch Olympic Committee.
In the last years Wardenaar developed his own online course: NTR555 Advanced Sports Nutrition, as part of the MS Nutrition program at ASU. He also was involved in rewriting the Dutch Sports Nutrition Guidelines with colleagues Daan Hoogervorst and Tjieu Maas from the Netherlands, and they also rewrote the section for the Dutch primary care physician nutrition guide (Artsenwijzer dietetiek). Since 2021 he organizes twice a year a sports nutrition webinar series featuring a wide variety of sports nutrition topics. His research focuses on hydration, thermoregulation and dietary supplement behavior in active and athletic populations (images displayed below with captions).
PINES Role:
As an Educational Officer I help to promote education in PINES members. For this purpose, we offer member connect sessions, in which members can present their work and connect and discuss with others about the issues they encounter. When (international) sports nutrition based courses ask for recognition by PINES we are able we recommend to the PINES board to endorse the course for our members, if the course is of high quality. Further we engage in other education based activities within PINES. One of the new activities is that we started to organize for the first time a virtual PINES symposium in the fall of 2023.
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