Sophie Joanisse is an Assistant Professor in Exercise Science, she completed an undergraduate degree in Kinesiology and a Master's in Human Kinetics at Laurentian University (Canada) before moving to McMaster University (Canada) where she completed a PhD in Kinesiology. Following her PhD, Sophie moved to the University of Birmingham as a postdoctoral fellow/scientific research officer, where she helped establish the mitochondrial profiling centre. She then returned to McMaster to complete a second postdoctoral fellowship before joining Manchester Metropolitan University as a Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology in 2020. In September 2023, Sophie joined the University of Nottingham to establish her own research group in the Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience Division within the School of Life Sciences.