Meet Our Speakers
Get to know our speakers
Discover the researchers and clinicians contributing to the ISLC-PAIS Conference 2026. Read their biographies, explore their research interests and learn more about their professional backgrounds.
Associate Professor Rob Wüst
VU University Amsterdam
Rob Wüst
Rob Wüst is an associate professor at the Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research group studies skeletal and cardiac muscle metabolism and function. His interest includes skeletal muscle adaptations after bed rest, in collaboration with astronauts from ESA and NASA and after acute and chronic inflammation. Recent work focuses on skeletal muscle abnormalities and exercise responses inpatients with Long COVID and ME/CFS. To better understand how muscle metabolism changes under different conditions, human muscle biopsies, mouse models, immunofluorescence and electron microscopy and various cellular and molecular
Wed 26 Aug
16:00
10 min
Auditorium
Conference Welcome
Opening remarks by the Conference Chair and organiser, marking the official opening of the Conference.
Rob Wüst | Conference Chair
ISLC-PAIS Conference Foundation
Michael Peluso
Rob Wüst is an associate professor at the Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His research group studies skeletal and cardiac muscle metabolism and function. His interest includes skeletal muscle adaptations after bed rest, in collaboration with astronauts from ESA and NASA and after acute and chronic inflammation. Recent work focuses on skeletal muscle abnormalities and exercise responses inpatients with Long COVID and ME/CFS. To better understand how muscle metabolism changes under different conditions, human muscle biopsies, mouse models, immunofluorescence and electron microscopy and various cellular and molecular
Associate Professor Rob Wüst
VU University Amsterdam