Staff Scientist

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The WHSP Institute is dedicated to advancing female athlete health and performance, and features world‑renowned sports medicine, science and research practitioners. Primarily supported by philanthropic funding from co‑founders David and Jane Ott and the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance (Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation), the WHSP Institute’s mission is to “Inspire, empower, educate and convene researchers, clinicians and the broader sports community to drive advancements in our understanding of female athlete health and performance.”

The Institute houses a state‑of‑the‑art physiology laboratory, a research‑grade strength and conditioning (S&C) high‑performance gym with 3D biomechanical analysis capabilities, a teaching and research metabolic kitchen, and dedicated research space, and is co‑located with its strategic partner WHSP Medical , a full‑service sports medicine practice. WHSP Institute is designed for tightly integrated clinical, performance, and translational research. Core research domains include sports endocrinology and hormonal health;

sports nutrition and energy availability; performance optimization (training, biomechanics, and recovery); injury prevention and return‑to‑play; and mental health and mental performance in sport, with a focus on female athletes across the lifespan. The Institute partners with leading universities, sports organizations, and governing bodies to deliver peer‑reviewed science, clinician education, and field‑shaping best practices. Along with these partnerships, the Institute already has a strong and existing national and international research collaboration network, with an existing scientific study portfolio.

The Staff Scientist – Behavior Change & Pragmatic Sciences (SS-BC&PS) will lead and support a rigorous, theory‑informed research program focused on behavior change and knowledge translation in female health and performance across the lifespan. We are seeking a mid‑career scientist with expertise in designing and conducting high‑impact, collaborative research, with particular emphasis on:

• Advanced qualitative research methodologies
• Mixed‑methods and implementation science designs
• Translation of findings into scalable interventions, education, and policy
• Quantitative research methodologies and statistical approaches considered an asset

The successful candidate will design, implement, and evaluate interventions targeting female health and performance domains such as menstrual health, REDs, mental health / mental performance, pregnancy/postpartum performance, peri‑/post‑menopause, and long‑term athlete health. The position requires a scientist who is equally comfortable leading in‑depth qualitative inquiry (e.g., participant interviews, ethnographic observations focus groups, implementation mapping), as well as leveraging quantitative methods to evaluate intervention efficacy and implementation outcomes as applied to mixed‑methods research designs.

The successful candidate will need to collaborate internally and externally with many collaborators to design and conduct pragmatic and implementation‑focused research across real‑world settings.

Together with the Director of Research & Development, the SS-BC&PS will share in setting a clear R&D vision, fostering collaboration, and successfully executing research projects from conception to publication and dissemination. Key attributes include a deep understanding of research methodologies, the ability to secure…