John Mata, CSCS, TSAC-F, RSCC

John D. Mata serves as the United States Air Force Special Warfare Human Performance Squadron Research Exercise Physiologist at Joint Base San Antonio Lackland and was an initial US Army H2F pilot Strength and Conditioning Coach and Program Manager from 2017 2021 at Fort Drum, NY and Fort Bliss, TX. His primary areas of research include wearable performance technology and physical training program evaluation in collaboration with the Human Performance Staff. Mata holds a Master of Science degree in Kinesiology and previously conducted athlete health and performance research at Texas Christian University, focused in muscle physiology and biomechanical evaluation, and is currently completing his PhD. He also served 10 years in the United States Air Force from 2004 2014, with deployments supporting Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), and Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa (C-JTF-HOA).