Faculdade de Motricidade Humana

Cláudia Minderico is a research fellow of CIPER. She holds a Bachelor degree in Physical Education and Sport from Faculty of Human Kinetics, a Bachelor degree in Nutrition Sciences from the Higher Institute of Health Sciences – Egas Moniz, a Master degree in Clinical Nutrition from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and a PhD in Physical Fitness and Health in the specialty of Body Composition by the Faculty of Human Kinetics. Her main research areas of interest are the investigation in clinical nutrition in health, body composition and athletic performance of high-performance athletes and recreation practitioners, clinical nutrition in healthy growth, development and aging, clinical nutrition in the prevention and therapy of specific pathologies, and nutritional prescription in programs of control and management of the weight. She is author of several pedagogical and scientific articles in the field of Clinical Nutrition, Sports Nutrition and Body Composition and Invited lecturer of several master’s and post-graduate courses in the field of Sports Nutrition. Currently she is in charge of the nutrition service of the Portuguese Olympic Committee.

Currently doing my PhD under the supervision of Prof. Duarte Araújo, I am a physical education teacher and also teach Training Periodization and Strength Training Methodology in Personal Training and Functional Training post-graduated courses at Manz/ULHT Lusófona.

Regarding my PhD, the investigation conducted at Ciper-Spertlab is focused in the nonlinear training approach to skill acquisition, specifically in volleyball and in the individualization of skill acquisition in team-setting.

I completed my Psychomotor Rehabilitation master degree at the Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon in 2010. I am currently taking a Ph.D. in Human Kinetics’ research area. My research addresses how elderly people gather and use visual information to guide locomotion. Using a head-mounted eye-tracking methodology, I measure eye gaze in adults and older adults to investigate the real-time acquisition of visual information during spontaneous, self-generated action. I am particularly interested in studying how the gaze behavior is affected by the aging process, during locomotion avoiding obstacles, and exploit the gaze patterns used.

Graduate in nutrition, MSc in physical activity and sports at the University of Barcelona and MSc in dietetic and human nutrition at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, PhD student in physical activity and health at the Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon. Her main investigations have been developed in the mechanisms behind the energy balance as concern to dietary intake and energy expenditure, such as physical activity patterns. She has published some research in the dietary and physical activity assessment, in order to better understand the diet and exercise-related diseases.

Veronica Vleck did her PhD on training and injury in Elite triathletes and is currently a full-time Research Fellow, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. She has extensive University and international lecturing experience in sports and exercise physiology and psychology, and is a former Laboratory Director of the National Sports Medicine Institute of the UK. She has over twenty years of experience in coaching and/or providing sports science support to all levels of athlete, from novices through to World Age Group Champions, National Squads and Olympic medallists.

Vanda Correia is Assistant Professor and Director of the degree in Sport at the School of Education and Communication of the University of Algarve in Faro (Portugal). She holds a PhD in Sport Sciences (funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology Portugal) from the Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon (Portugal). Interested in the study of decision making in sport, Vanda Correia is particularly interested in understanding the perception-action couplings and the dynamic interaction of contextual and individual variables in players’ course of action, both individually and as a collective (team). On these research domains Vanda Correia has published several scientific articles that have potentiated a broad spectrum of international collaborations.