Dr Jakob Škarabot

BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA

  • Reader in Neuromuscular Physiology

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Jakob Skarabot

Jakob completed his undergraduate studies in Kinesiology at the University of Ljubljana (2014) before moving to the Neuromuscular Research Centre at the University of Jyväskylä, where he earned an MSc in Sport Science with a major in biomechanics (2016). He then undertook a PhD in Neurophysiology at Northumbria University, completing it in 2019. He joined Loughborough University that October as a Doctoral Prize Fellow, taking up a position of Lecturer in 2020 before being promoted to Senior Lecturer (2024) and Reader (2026) in Neuromuscular Physiology within the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences.

Jakob's research combines experimental and computational approaches to investigate motoneuron physiology in health, ageing, and disease – using decomposition of electromyography recordings, and magnetic and electrical stimulation of central and peripheral nervous tissue to study how neural drive to muscle adapts to different stressors, and how it is altered in different musculoskeletal (e.g. osteoarthritis) and neurological conditions (e.g. motor neurone disease).

Jakob is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Physiology and the Journal of Applied Physiology (both since 2024), and Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise (since 2022). In 2026, he was elected to the council of the International Society for Electrophysiology and Kinesiology for the 2026-2028 term.

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