E156 Josh Hagen on optimizing performance in athletes and warfighters. @IHMC
E156 Josh Hagen on optimizing performance in athletes and warfighters.  @IHMC
Uploaded August 2023 | Updated September 2026, 13 hours ago
Today’s interview is with Dr. Josh Hagen, the director of the Human Performance Collaborative at Ohio State University and an Associate Research Professor in the university’s Department of Integrated Systems Engineering.

Hagen’s STEM-Talk is co-hosted by IHMC Founder Ken Ford and IHMC’s Chief Strategic Partnership Officer Dr. Morley Stone, who was instrumental in Hagen’s career. Hagen's lab brings together multi-disciplinary teams of researchers, sports scientists, data scientists, and practitioners with the goal of optimizing human performance in Ohio State athletes.

Hagen also works on federally funded projects in human performance with Special Operations Command, The Air Force Research Laboratory, the Office of Naval Research and several private foundations. Josh joined IHMC in 2022 in a collaborate role as a Visiting Senior Research Scientist.

Full shownotes: ihmc.us/stemtalk/episode-156
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