Nicholas Harvey is Professor of Rheumatology and Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Southampton; Director of the NIHR Southampton Biomedical Research Centre; and Director of the University’s Lifecourse Epidemiology Centre and an NIHR Senior Investigator.

He studies mechanisms, risk factors and human interventions across the lifecourse to prevent osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and sarcopenia.

He is President of the International Osteoporosis Foundation; a Board Member of the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases; a UK Royal Osteoporosis Society (ROS) former Trustee and was inaugural Vice-Chair of the ROS Research Academy. He is a Fellow of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. He has won many national/international prizes, including the International Osteoporosis Foundation Olof Johnell Science Award and UoS-UHS David Barker Research Prize. He is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher; has published over 550 articles and is a member of many national/ international committees, including as Bone and Body Composition Lead, UK Biobank Imaging Working Group.