Clive Beggs

Clive Beggs is Emeritus Professor of Applied Physiology in the Carnegie School of Sport at Leeds Beckett University. He is a PhD bio-engineer and a physiologist, who has worked for many years with leading research teams around the world on a wide variety of medical and sport related projects – publishing many scientific papers on: infection control; multiple sclerosis and neurological disease; bio-engineering; sport performance; and data analytics. With a background in mathematical modelling of clinical and biological systems, Clive regularly uses his expertise in data analytics and machine learning in his sport performance work. Clive’s life-long interest in sport, exercise and mathematics prompted him to write Soccer Analytics: An Introduction Using R, which was recently published by Chapman & Hall (CRC Press). This book is a comprehensive introduction to soccer analytics, aimed at all those interested learning how to analyse soccer data. Clive also holds a PhD is energy engineering and early in his career wrote, Energy: Management, Supply and Conservation, published by Routledge, which has become a staple textbook on the subject used in universities around the world.