Faculdade de Motricidade Humana

Luís B. Sardinha is a Full Professor of Exercise Prescription at the Faculty of Human Kinetics, University of Lisbon. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles and has been an investigator and PI in several national and international multicentric research projects. He has an H-index = 77 (Source: Web of Science - all databases). The focus of his research has been the development of methods and models of human body composition and studying graded and dose-response relationships between sedentary behavior, physical activity, and fitness with physiological attributes across the life span and related mechanisms with randomized clinical trials, especially within the scope of Obesity, Cardiovascular Diseases, Type 2 Diabetes, and more recently on Oncological Exercise. He is also involved in forward-translation research comprising web-based outreach programs to influence children and adults, body composition, fitness, and health using passive digital phenotyping.

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.

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.