Hayden Hess earned his PhD in 2020 at the University at Buffalo where his research focus was diving and hyperbaric physiology. This was followed by a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at Indiana University–Bloomington in integrative physiology. There, he trained in thermal and renal physiology with a particular focus on the risk of developing acute kidney injury during occupational heat stress and extreme heat events. He is currently a principal investigator in the Center for Research and Education in Special Environments (CRESE). 

• Postdoctoral fellowship, integrative physiology, Indiana University–Bloomington
• PhD, exercise and nutrition sciences, University at Buffalo
  
• MS, exercise and sports studies, Boise State University
  
• BS, athletic training, Washington State University
  

• 2023 Adolfo M. Hernández Memorial Award-Outstanding Research by a Professional for the ACSM Environmental and Occupational Physiology Interest Group
• 2022 International Conference on Environmental Ergonomics Postdoctoral Poster Award (Sponsor: Experimental Physiology)
• 2022 Gatorade Sports Science Institute Postdoctoral Award
• 2017-2020 University at Buffalo Presidential Fellow 

• American Physiological Society
• American College of Sports Medicine
• Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine Society