Bengt Kayser
EXERCISE PHYSIOLOGIST
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
(anti-)doping, enhancement, medicine, ethics, philosophy
Bengt Kayser is full professor at the Institute of Sport Sciences and the Department of Physiology of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. After his medical studies at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands he engaged in a research career in the field of exercise physiology with a special interest in hypoxia. After obtaining his Ph.D. at the Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, he worked at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, before joining the University of Geneva in Switzerland. After preparing the merging of the Lausanne and Geneva institutes he now is at the University of Lausanne since 2013. His research interests concern the factors limiting endurance exercise performance, altitude medicine and physiology, respiratory mechanics during physical exercise, and the relationship between physical activity, energy balance and health in different settings. Besides these fields he has a keen interest in the ethics of doping and anti-doping, human enhancement, and substance use in general and has published several original papers and chapters on these topics.