Glenn Nielsen is a clinical academic neurological physiotherapist at St George’s University of London and St George’s University Hospital, where he leads a specialist NHS physiotherapy service for functional motor disorder. He began his career at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth Western Australia before moving to London and starting work at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in 2007. He was awarded an NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship in 2014 and while working at the National Hospital he completed his PhD at the UCL Institute of Neurology on the topic of physiotherapy for functional neurological disorder (FND). He is currently leading a multicenter, single-blind, randomised controlled trial of specialist physiotherapy for functional motor disorder (physio4FMD.org) and an NIHR-funded observational study on functional somatosensory symptoms.