Advisory Board and Editors Sports Medicine
Luca Correale
Dr. Luca Correale is a Research fellow at the Department of Public Health, Experimental Medicine and Forensic Science, University of Pavia. His main research areas include physical activity for health and exercise in neurological conditions.
Victor S Coswig
Dr. Victor Coswig has a bachelor's degree, a Master's degree and a PhD in Physical Education from the Superior School of Physical Education of the Federal University of Pelotas (Pelotas, Brazil). He is currently Adjunct Professor and Researcher at the Physical Education and Sports Institute of the Federal University of Ceará (Fortaleza, Brazil), where he is investigating topic related to sports medicine and training.
His current research focuses on acute and chronic responses to exercise, training and sports practice, mainly, but not exclusive to combat sports performance.
Zachary James Crowley-McHattan
Zac completed his undergraduate (2006), Honors (2007) and Ph.D. (2013) at Southern Cross University and has been a lecturer at SCU since 2012. Zac is broadly interested in investigating the control and learning of motor skills in both functional and sporting contexts. His primary area of research is in neuromuscular changes with ageing and exercise but also has an interest in the potential application of cross-education on neuromuscular adaptations in injury and fatigue.
Stanisław H. Czyż
Stanisław Czyż is Associate Professor within the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences at the Wroclaw University of Health and Sport Sciences in Poland. He is Associate Professor (Incubator of Kinanthropology Research) at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia; and Extraordinary Associate Professor within the Physical Activity, Sport, and Recreation focus group at North-West University, South Africa.
Gian Pietro Emerenziani
Bachelor in Sport Sciences, summa cum laude (2004) and Specializations Degree in Preventive and Adapted Physical Activity at University of Rome "Foro Italico", summa cum laude (2006). On 2010 he finished the Post Doctoral course in Biomedical and Methodological Aspects of Preventive and Adapted Physical Activities at University of Rome "Foro Italico". During his career, he deepened his knowledge and scientific and clinical skills in the fields of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences focusing on the effects of different Training Program on health in Obese and Older subjects. Since 2009 he has taught as expert in the subject at University of Rome "Foro Italico", then in 2016 as a holder of single courses and integrated courses at the University of Catanzaro "Magna Graecia".The number of publications on indexed peer-reviewed journals with Impact Factor (41 since 2008) and the number of citations received from them (483) shows his high albeit young scientific activity.In 2017 he obtained the MIUR grant (FFABR). He is a member of the Editorial Board of the “Motricidade” , “PeerJ" and "Austin Sports Medicine" journals. Moreover, he is the Reviewer of several international journals, such as Eating and Weight Disorders and International Journal of Sports Medicine. Member of the Italian Society of Sport Sciences (SISMES) and of Italian Society of Andrology and Sexual Medicine (SIAMS).
Géraldine Escriva-Boulley
Dr. Géraldine Escriva-Boulley is an associate professor at Haute-Alsace University in France.
Her specific areas of research include Social Psychology and Positive Psychology.
Mário C Espada
Dr. Mário Espada is Adjunct Professor at the Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, teaching in Higher Education School (ESE-IPS) and Higher School of Health (ESS-IPS).
He carried out his Postdoctoral in Human Kinetics, Sport Sciences specialty in 2015 at the Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP, São Paulo - Brazil), and earned his PhD in Human Kinetics, Sport Sciences in 2013 within the Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon, Portugal (FMH-UL).
Dr. Espada also holds the following roles:
Effective member of Sport Physical Activity and Health Research & Innovation Center (SPRINT).
Collaborating member of Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Human Performance (CIPER), Faculty of Human Kinetics of the University of Lisbon, Portugal (FMH-UL), Comprehesive Health Research Centre (CHRC), University of Évora, Portugal (UE), and Life Quality Research Center (CIEQV).
Dr. Espada has published several articles in specialized journals. Regular presence and presentation of communications in international technical and scientific events.
His primary research areas are Sport and Exercise, focusing in Exercise Physiology and Training Methodology.
Peter A Federolf
Prof. Peter Federolf was born and received his high school education in Germany. He completed a degree in physics and a Dr. sc. ethz from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETHZ). He held research positions at ETHZ and Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) in Davos (2000-2005), postdoc positions at the University of Salzburg, Austria and at the University of Calgary, Canada (2005-2007). He was appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Calgary (2007-2011) and stayed as visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin and at BioMotion Lab in Stanford. As Senior Researcher he joined the Norwegian School for Sport Sciences (NIH) in Oslo, Norway (2011-2013). In 2014 he was a Full Professor for Biomechanics at Department of Neuroscience in the Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway and Professor II (Adjunct Professor) at NIH. In 2015 he moved to Austria to assume a Full Professorship for Neurophysiology at the Institute for Sport Science (ISW) at the University of Innsbruck. From 2020 to 2024 he held the office of Head of Department at ISW.
Federolf is a Fellow of the European College of Sport Science (ECSS) and currently serves on their Scientific Board. He served on the Executive Board of the Austrian Society of Sport Scientists (“Österreichische Sportwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft”, ÖSG) was was their President between 2022 and 2024.
Federolf's primary research interests include human movement and sensorimotor control with a focus on (1) balance and stability, (2) technique analysis in various sports disciplines, (3) injury prevention and rehabilitation from injury, (4) human motion adaptation to sport equipment.
Carlo Ferri Marini
Dr. Carlo Ferri Marini is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Human Movement Sciences of the University of Groningen and University Medical Center Groningen. His research interests include aerobic and resistance exercise testing and prescription in both healthy and clinical populations, with a particular focus on the exercise physiology underlying the exercise intensity prescription methods.
Marco Filardi
Marco Filardi, Ph.D., is a Senior Assistant Professor of Experimental Psychology in the Department of Italian Language, Literature, and Arts in the World at the University for Foreigners of Perugia (Italy)
His research interests involve sleep and circadian rhythms in clinical (e.g., primary sleep disorders, neurodegenerative disorders, psychiatric disorders, and neurodevelopmental disorders), and non-clinical populations (e.g., children, adolescents, and elderly), sleep methodology (e.g., multisignal wearables, actigraphy, non-linear movement analysis, PSG, signal processing), neuroimaging correlates of sleep disturbances and cognitive deficits in sleep disorders and neurodegenerative conditions.
Francesco Fischetti
Associate Professor at University of Bari. Professor of Training Methodology and Psychobiology applied to sport. Researcher in sports sciences since 1986. It has more than 100 publications.
Liang Gao
Dr. Liang Gao currently works as a senior Research Fellow at the Center of Experimental Orthopaedics, Saarland University, Germany. His clinical interests include sports medicine, arthroplasty, and traumatology. His research focuses on joint preservation and orthobiologics.
Dr. Gao studied Medicine in China and Germany with intensive fellowship training in both Asia and Europe. He completed the Musculoskeletal Surgical Oncology residency training at Peking University Medical Center, China. Moreover, he obtained his master of science degree (Radiation Oncology) from Heidelberg University, Germany and his doctorate (Biological Therapy) summa cum laude from Saarland University, Germany.
Dr. Gao is the Member of the Basic Science Committee of International Cartilage Regeneration & Joint Preservation Society (ICRS), the Member of the Early Career Investigator Committee of Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI), and the Founding Member of the Sino Euro Orthopaedics Society (SEOS).