Ivan Low Cherh Chiet

Ivan Low Cherh Chiet

Ph.D.

Senior Lecturer

Affiliations

  • Senior Lecturer, Department of Physiology, National University of Singapore
  • Human Potential Translational Research Programme, NUS Medicine
  • Director for Continuous Education Training, Department of Physiology, NUS Medicine
  • Deputy Education Director – Life Science, Department of Physiology, NUS Medicine

Research Areas of Interest:

  • Sports Science and Exercise
  • Curriculum and Pedagogy
  • Exercise Physiology
  • Public Health

Biography

Ivan teaches medical and life sciences students and leads curriculum design for adult learning CET courses on topics related to exercise physiology and health. He is a strong proponent of contextualized and experiential learning and has received multiple Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards as well as NUS Honour roll in Teaching Excellence. In addition to his teaching commitments, Ivan runs a Human Performance and Applied Physiology laboratory in NUS and his main research interests lie in the area of thermoregulation and fluid balance to enhance human performance and cognition. He has a provisional patent filed for an ear-based core temperature monitoring system and has multiple publications in the field of thermal physiology and brain functions.

Teaching

Curriculum Lead and Coordinator for multiple modules and continuing education & training (CET) courses:

  • LSM4215 – Extreme Physiology
  • GEH1063 – Understanding the body, mind and culture through sports
  • HSI2002 – Inquiry into Current Sporting Practices and Beliefs
  • MIH1101 – What Impacts Health?
  • OPHSM – Occupational Periodisation & Heat Stress Management CET Course

Selected Publications

  1. *Alhadad, S. B., *Low, I. C. C., & Lee, J. K. W. (2021). Thermoregulatory responses to ice slurry ingestion during low and moderate intensity exercises with restrictive heat loss. J Sci Med Sport, 24(1), 105-109.
  2. Tan, C. C. S., Chin, L. K. K., & Low, I. C. C. (2020). Thermoregulation in the Aging Population and Practical Strategies to Overcome a Warmer Tomorrow. Proteomics, 20(5-6), e1800468.
  3. Tan, X. R., Low, I. C. C., Byrne, C., Wang, R., & Lee, J. K. W. (2021). Assessment of dehydration using body mass changes of elite marathoners in the tropics. J Sci Med Sport.
  4. *Tan, X. R., *Low, I. C. C., Stephenson, M. C., Kok, T., Nolte, H. W., Soong, T. W., et al. (2019). Altered brain structure with preserved cortical motor activity after exertional hypohydration: a MRI study. J Appl Physiol (1985), 127(1), 157-167.
  5. Tan, X. R., Low, I. C. C., Stephenson, M. C., Soong, T. W., & Lee, J. K. W. (2018). Neural basis of exertional fatigue in the heat: A review of magnetic resonance imaging methods. Scand J Med Sci Sports, 28(3), 807-818.
  6. Low, I. C. C., Loh, T., Huang, Y., Virshup, D. M., & Pervaiz, S. (2014). Ser70 phosphorylation of Bcl-2 by selective tyrosine nitration of PP2A-B56δ stabilizes its antiapoptotic activity. Blood, 124(14), 2223-2234.

*Denotes co-first authorship

Awards

  • 2008 NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering Scholarship
  • 2011 Department of Physiology Best Graduate Student Presentation and Publication Award
  • 2013 NUS Sports Service Staff Award
  • 2015 Swee Liew-Wadsworth Research Award
  • 2019 Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence Award for AY 2018/2019
  • 2020 Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence Award for AY 2019/2020
  • 2021 2021 Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence Award
  • 2022 NUS Honour Roll in Teaching Excellence (Faculty of Science)
  • 2021 NUS Faculty Digital Education Award (Team Lead)
  • 2021 NUS Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
  • 2020 NUS Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
  • 2019 NUS Faculty Teaching Excellence Award
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