Dr Alan McCubbin works in the Department of Nutrition Dietetics & Food, Faculty of Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences at Monash University as a Senior Teaching Fellow. He is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian and Accredited Sports Dietitian, and in 2021 was awarded Fellowship of Sports Dietitians Australia for his combined research and education contributions to the profession.

Alan completed his PhD at Monash, focussing on the dietary sodium intake practices of endurance athletes, and the likely implications for health and performance during exercise. Since then he has continued work in defining the sodium requirements of endurance and ultra-endurance athletes before, during and after exercise. He has also contributed to other projects within the Sports Dietetics & Extremes Physiology team at the university, in areas including the impacts of nutrition and exercise on the gastrointestinal tract of athletes.

Alan's key research interests are in the physiology of water and sodium balance, and the impact this has on defining sodium and fluid requirements for optimising athlete health and performance. 

Alan currently works 2.5 days a week as a Senior Teaching Fellow in the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics & Food. In this role he is a convenor for units covering nutrition, activity and health in chronic disease, and an overview of nutrients and human nutrition. 

Alan is also currently coordinating the Department of Nutrition, Dietetics & Food's implementation of the Digital Health Curriculum, being implemented across the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences.