Thomas Romeas

Thomas Romeas est professeur associé à l’École de Kinésiologie et des Sciences de l'Activité Physique de l'Université de Montréal et dirige le secteur de la recherche et de l'innovation à l'Institut national du sport du Québec (https://www.insquebec.org/), un centre d'entraînement national Olympique et Paralympique. Thomas est aussi professeur associé au département de psychologie de l'Université York (Toronto) et professeur accrédité au département de Neurosciences de l'Université de Montréal.

En tant que scientifique de la performance, Thomas se spécialise dans l'acquisition de compétences, la cognition, la vision et la psychologie. Ses intérêts portent sur l'évaluation et l'entraînement des compétences, les capacités perceptivo-motrices, la psychologie cognitive, la performance mentale, les commotions cérébrales et l'application des technologies de réalité étendue et de suivi oculaire.

Il offre des consultations et collabore avec des athlètes d'élite ainsi que des organisations sportives professionnelles, Olympiques et Paralympiques pour optimiser la performance humaine. Thomas mène des projets de recherche pour stimuler l'innovation, éclairer sa pratique professionnelle et faire progresser les connaissances, en particulier dans le domaine du sport de haut niveau et de la performance humaine.

Après avoir obtenu son doctorat en neurosciences de la vision à l’École d'optométrie de l'Université de Montréal en 2016, Thomas a approfondi son expertise en effectuant un stage postdoctoral au département de génie logiciel et de technologies de l'information à l'École de technologie supérieure et à l'Académie du CF Montréal.

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Thomas Romeas is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Kinesiology and Physical Activity Sciences at the Université de Montréal and leads the Research and Innovation sector at the Institut national du sport du Québec (https://www.insquebec.org/), a national Olympic and Paralympic training centre. Thomas is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at York University (Toronto) and an accredited professor in the Department of Neurosciences at the Université de Montréal.

As a performance scientist, Thomas specializes in skill acquisition, cognition, vision, and psychology. His interests include the assessment and training of skills, perceptual-motor abilities, cognitive psychology, mental performance, concussions, and the application of extended reality and eye-tracking technologies.

He provides consultations and collaborates with elite athletes as well as professional, Olympic, and Paralympic sport organizations to optimize human performance. Thomas conducts research projects to foster innovation, inform his professional practice, and advance knowledge, particularly in the fields of high-performance sport and human performance.

After earning his PhD in vision neuroscience at the School of Optometry of the Université de Montréal in 2015, Thomas further developed his expertise through a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Software and IT Engineering at the École de technologie supérieure and at the CF Montréal Academy.

• La boxe en mode virtuel
• Where is the research on sport-related concussion in Olympic athletes?
• On n’a pas fini d’aller plus vite, plus haut, plus fort
• A la recherche du sportif parfait
• Intelligence artificielle
• La réalité virtuelle dans le sport de haut niveau
• Virtual-Reality Training of Elite Boxers Preparing for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study
• Sport d'élite : du chaos dans l'entraînement
• Baseball Québec flirte avec la réalité virtuelle

Publications scientifiques évaluées par des pairs

Dong L, Bourrel N, Paradelo D, Christie S, Berryman N, Romeas T. The co-creation of representative training designs in elite water polo using a scientist-practitioner approach. Journal of Sport Psychology in Action. 2025.

Dong L, Romeas T, Filali-Mouhim A, Berryman N. The relationship between match-play decision making and fatigue in elite women’s water polo: A novel recurrent events approach. Journal of Sports Science. 2025 Apr 18; 1-10

Fortin-Guichard D, Johnston K, Romeas T, Wojtowicz M, Lemoyne J, Mann DL, Grondin S, Baker J. Beyond the trained eye: An objective method to predict game sense in team sports. Journal of Sports Science. 2025 Apr 17; 1-17.

Dong L, Romeas T, Vincent T, Bherer L, Berryman N. Performance on a domain-general and a domain-specific cognitive task during exercise: what are the effects of exercise intensity, exercise modality, and time of cognitive assessment among highly-trained athletes? International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology. 2024 Dec 2;1-22.

Charbonneau E, Begon M, Romeas T. Gaze strategies of elite and sub-elite trampolinists during varying difficulty levels of twisting somersaults. Human Movement Science, 98, 103295. 2024.

Romeas, T, Croteau, F, & Leclerc, S. Where is the research on sport-related concussion in Olympic athletes? A descriptive report and assessment of the impact of access to multidisciplinary care on recovery. British Journal of Sports Medicine, bjsports-2024-108211. 2024.

Romeas T, Goujat M, Faubert J, Labbé D. No transfer of 3D-Multiple Object Tracking training on game performance in soccer: a follow-up study. Psychology of Sport and Exercise. 2024.

Vona, M, de Guise, É, Leclerc, S, Deslauriers, J, & Romeas, T. Multiple domain-general assessments of cognitive functions in elite athletes: contrasting evidence for the influence of expertise, sport type and sex. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 102715. 2024.

Valevicius, A.; Croteau, F.; Romeas, T.; Leclerc, S.; Pearsall, D.J. Assessing Kinematic Variables in Short-Track Speed Skating Helmets: A Comparative Study between Traditional Rigid Foam and Anti-Rotation Designs. Biomechanics 2024, 4, 483-493. 2024.

Loiseau Taupin M, Romeas T, Juste L, Labbé D. Exploring the effects of 3D-360°VR and 2D viewing modes on gaze behavior, head excursion and workload during a boxing specific anticipation task. Frontiers in Psychology, Movement Science. 2023.

Edouard P, Guilhem G, Delvaux F, Romeas T, […]. Méthodes de recueil et report des données épidémiologiques sur les blessures et les maladies dans le sport : synthèse ReFORM de la position de consensus du Comité international olympique. Journal de Traumatologie du Sport, 2023.

Dong L, Berryman N, Romeas T. Questioning the validity and reliability of using a video-based test to assess decision making among female and male water polo players. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 2023.

Dong L, Pageaux B, Romeas T, Berryman N. The effects of fatigue on perceptual-cognitive performance among open-skill sport athletes: a scoping review. International review of sport and exercise psychology, 2022.

Romeas T, More-Chevalier B, Charbonneau M, Bieuzen F. Virtual-reality training of elite boxers preparing for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case-study. Case study in sport and exercise psychology, 2022.

Richard V, Lavoie-Leonard B, Romeas T. Embedding perceptual-cognitive trainings in the athlete environment: an interdisciplinary case study among elite female goalkeepers preparing for Tokyo 2020. Case study in sport and exercise psychology, 2021.

Romeas T, Greffou S, Allard R, McKerral M, Forget R, Faubert J, Gagnon I. Dynamic visual stimulations produced in a controlled virtual reality environment reveals long-lasting postural deficits in children with mild traumatic brain injury. Frontiers in Neurology, 2021.

Dong L, […], Romeas T, Berryman N. Sport-specific agility and change of direction in water polo: the reliability and validity of two newly developed tests. Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 2021.

Romeas T, Chaumillon R, Labbé D, Faubert J. Combining 3D-MOT with sport decision-making for perceptual-cognitive training in virtual reality. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2019.

Mejane J, Faubert J, Romeas T, Labbe D. The combined impact of a perceptual–cognitive task and neuromuscular fatigue on knee biomechanics during landing. The Knee, 2019.

Chermann J, Romeas T, Marty F, Faubert J. Perceptual-cognitive three-dimensional multiple-object tracking task can help the monitoring of sport-related concussion. BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 2018.

Hoke J, Reuter C, Romeas T, Montariol M, Schnell T, Faubert J. Perceptual-cognitive and physiological assessment of training effectiveness. Proceedings of Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) 2017.

Chaumillon R, Romeas T, Paillard C, Bernardin D, Giraudet G, Bouchard JF, Faubert J. Enhancing data visualisation to capture the simulator sickness phenomenon: On the usefulness of radar charts. Data in Brief, 2017.

Chaumillon R, Romeas T, Paillard C, Bernardin D, Giraudet G, Bouchard JF, Faubert J. The use of transdermal scopolamine to solve methodological issues raised by gender differences in susceptibility to simulator sickness. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 2017.

Romeas T, Faubert J. Soccer athletes are superior to non-athletes at perceiving soccer-specific and non-sport specific human biological motion. Frontiers in Psychology, Movement Science and Sport Psychology, 2015.

Romeas T, Guldner A, Faubert J. 3D-MOT training task improves passing decision-making accuracy in soccer players. Psychology of Sport & Exercise, 2015.

Lucas G, Du J, Romeas T, Mnie-Filali O, Haddjeri N, Piñeyro G, Debonnel G. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors potentiate the rapid antidepressant-like effects of serotonin4 receptor agonists in the rat. PLoS One, 2010.

Romeas T, Morissette M-C, Mnie-Filali O, M. Boye S et Piñeyro G. Simultaneous anhedonia and exaggerated locomotor activation in an animal model of depression. Psychopharmacology, 2009.

Books

Romeas T and Faubert J. Expertise sportive et entraînement perceptivo-cognitif de l’athlète. Book, Presses Académiques Francophones Ed., 2017.

Romeas T, Piñeyro G, M. Boye S. Bulbectomie olfactive : nouvelle approche pour étudier la dépression. Book, Presses Académiques Francophones Ed., 2013.