Advisory Board and Editors Sports Injury
Tiago M Barbosa
Tiago Barbosa holds an appointment as professor of sport sciences (biomechanics) at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal.
His research interests encompass the forecast and modelling of the performance of elite and age-group athletes, notably in time-based sports. He is serving as Science and Technology consultant for the Portuguese Olympic Committee, board member for the Portuguese Swimming Federation, member of the sub-committee for Events and Development at FINA, the world swimming governing body.
Tiago Barbosa is the biomechananist of Mário Trindade, Paralympics finalist and European champion in wheelchair sprinting events. He also serves in several editorial boards of peer-review journals.
Octavio Barbosa Neto
Associate Professor at the Institute of Physical Education and Sports (IEFES) at the Federal University of Ceará (UFC). He completed a master's degree and doctorate in Sciences (General Pathology) from the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro (UFTM). Advisor of the Postgraduate Program in Physical Education at UFTM. Researcher in the areas of Human Physiology and Exercise with an emphasis on Exercise Cardiology (acute and chronic effects of aerobic and resistance exercises) applied to healthy subjects (young and elderly) and those with Chronic Diseases (hypertension, peripheral arterial disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer, among others), Cardiovascular Physiology in Human Performance and Ergogenic Resources, Autonomic Controls and Reflexes, Neovascularization, Cardiovascular Variability and Cellular Therapy.
Joshua C Carr
Dr. Joshua Carr is an Assistant Professor in the Kinesiology Department at Texas Christian University and the Department of Medical Education at the Burnett School of Medicine. He is the Director of the Neuromuscular Physiology Laboratory on TCU’s main campus and was recently awarded the BIGXII Faculty Fellowship Award. His primary research focus relates to exercise training with a specific interest in the adaptations that occur with single-limb exercise and interventions that restore and enhance neuromuscular function. He uses surface electromyography, mechanomyography, and neuromuscular stimulation techniques to assess the human neuromuscular system with fatigue, training, injury, and disease.
Emiliano Cè
Emiliano Cè was born in Italy in 1976. He received the Degree in Sport Sciences from the University of Milan (Italy) in 2002. He achieved his PhD in Morphological Sciences (2007) at the University of Milan (Italy). He received the BSc in Osteopathy from the University of Wales (Wales, UK) in 2010. Present position: Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health of the University of Milan (Italy). His research interests are addressed to the study of muscle biological signals, in particular force, surface electromyogram (EMG) and mechanomyogram (MMG), in muscle during voluntary or stimulated contractions in different physiological models (fatigue, training, temperature, etc.). Currently, his scientific activity is focused on the properties of the muscle-tendon unit mechanical model and the possibility to monitor the motor unit activation strategy by the analysis of force, EMG and MMG signals. He is a member of the Italian Society of Sport Sciences (SISMES).
Mike Climstein
Mike Climstein (PhD, FASMF, FACSM, FESSA, AEP) is an Associate Professor who holds clinical and research appointments. He is currently Course Coordinator of the Master of Clinical Exercise Physiology program at Southern Cross University; Adjunct Assoc. Professor in the Physical Activity, Lifestyle, Ageing and Wellbeing Faculty Research Group, University of Sydney and Director of Aquatic Based Research at Southern Cross University.
Mike has 165 papers, 12 book chapters and 38 grants (internal and external funding) totaling in excess of $7.8m (AUD). His academic and clinical accomplishments have been peer-recognized having received Fellowship by Sports Medicine Australia (FASMF), American College of Sports Medicine (FACSM) and Exercise and Sports Science Australia (FAAESS). Additionally, Mike has received a number of awards for his research efforts. He is an Academic Editor for PeerJ and reviewer for a number of exercise/sports science and sports medicine journals.
Mike’s research involves clinical exercise physiology/sports science, masters athletes, deleterious effects of aging and chronic conditions on bone health/segmental body composition. He is currently supervising PhD students in the areas of skin cancer, cardiac rehabilitation, world masters games athletes, surfing (bone health and exostoses) and biometric/smart clothing in clinical monitoring.
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.
Tim L A Doyle
Dr Tim Doyle is a biomechanics and physical performance researcher at Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia. He has a broad network having studied within Australia (The University of Queensland, Edith Cowan University) and overseas at Ball State University in the USA. In addition to his academic qualifications he is also an accredited level 2 strength and conditioning coach (ASCA), an accredited level 2 sport scientist and exercise scientist (ESSA). He was awarded an Endeavour Executive Fellowship which provided the opportunity to spend time at The Mayo Clinic and Stanford University. His research involves neuromuscular biomechanics, injury prevention, and physical preparation in athletes and tactical populations.
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 Center for Research in Education and Training (CIEF-IPS), Center for Product Development and Technology Transfer (CDP2T-IPS) and Life Quality Research Center (CIEQV).
Collaborating member of Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Human Performance (CIPER), Faculty of Human Kinetics of the University of Lisbon, Portugal (FMH-UL).
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.
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.
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).
Dominic Gehring
Dr. Dominic Gehring is an associate professor within the Department of Sport and Sport Science at the University of Freiburg. His primary research interests lie in biomechanics of human movement, motion analysis, biomechanics of ankle and knee joint control with a specific focus on sports injuries as well as footwear research.
Michael WR Holmes
Mike Holmes is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Neuromuscular Mechanics and Ergonomics at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Mike completed a Bachelor of Kinesiology (Honours) and a Master of Science (MSc. Biomechanics) from Memorial University. He obtained a PhD in Biomechanics from McMaster University and completed a one year post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Waterloo.
Combining neuroscience and biomechanics, his work aims to better understand how people become injured at work. The focus of his research program is to better understand work-related upper extremity disorders by identifying mechanisms of injury and pain related to the neuromuscular and biomechanical properties of muscles and ligaments. Using laboratory based techniques, including electromyography, motion capture, electrical stimulation, medical imaging and computer modelling, his fundamental approach leads to workplace applications and investigations.