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Francesca Vitali
Summary
Francesca Vitali is currently Assistant Professor & Senior Researcher at School of Sport Sciences, University of Verona, Italy, where she has been since 2010. She obtained her Ph.D. in Methodology of research in psychology in 2003 at the University of Genoa, Italy. Her major research agenda has been on the (1) motivational processes and prevention of early youth dropout from sport; (2) psychosocial benefits of sport and physical activity (PA) for patients, special populations, and people with and without disabilities; (3) psychobiosocial (PBS) states and motivational processes in Physical Education; (4) gender differences and gender stereotypes in sport and PA; (5) student-athlete dual career and career transitions; (6) enhancement of the attentive strategies and optimization of performance in endurance sports. She was Research Partner of the co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union project Be a Winner In Elite Sport and Employment before and after athletic Retirement (B-WISER), concluded in December 2018. The project was aimed at optimizing the employability and employment of active and former elite athletes. Together with Federico Schena, since the academic year 2017/2018 she is the Scientific Director of the Academic Coach project, a peer-tutorship project offered at the students-athletes of the University of Verona. Furthermore, she is currently the Editor for the GIPS (Italian Journal of Sport Psychology), the official journal of Associazione Italiana Psicologia dello Sport e dell'esercizio (AIPS). From 2014 to 2016 she has been the National President of AIPS.