Meet the editors

Daniel Almeida Marinho has been an associate professor at the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal since 2008 and the director of the Ph.D. sports sciences course since 2013. He obtained a degree in Sport and Physical Education at the University of Porto in 2004, a Ph.D. in Sport Sciences at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) in 2009, and a habilitation in Sport Sciences at UBI in 2013. He has supervised

twenty graduate theses, twenty MD theses, and ten PhD theses. He has published more than 150 academic titles, including ten books and book chapters, 60 articles in SCI journals, 70 articles in peer-reviewed indexed international journals, and 10 articles in peer-reviewed indexed national journals. He has participated in the organisation of fifteen national and international scientific meetings and has been a member of several Ph.D. and MD juries. Since 2013, he has been working with the Portuguese Swimming Federation, where he is responsible for coaching courses and coordinates the Evaluation and Control Training Centre.

Pedro Miguel Gomes Forte obtained a degree in Sports in 2012 and a master's degree in Exercise and Health in 2014, both from the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal. He completed his Ph.D. in Sports Sciences at the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal, in 2018. He is a coordinator professor at the Instituto Superior de Ciências Educativas do Douro, Portugal, and a guest professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança.

He is also a basketball and football coach. The focus of his sports science research is biomechanics, particularly prevalence, posture, youth, asymmetries, risk factors, football, training, analysis, performance, computational fluid dynamics, aerodynamics, drag, hydrodynamics, and kinematics.

Maria S. Cirilo-Sousa is an assistant professor (Ph.D.) in the Department of Physical Education – Associate Graduate Program in Physical Education at the Federal University of Paraíba. Her research interests involve the resistance exercise with blood flow restriction with different objectives in different populations.

Henrique Neiva obtained his Ph.D. in Sport Sciences at the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal, in 2015, supported by a grant from the Science and Technology Foundation. He has more than fifty scientific publications to his credit and has published several peer-reviewed papers in high-ranked journals. A former international swimmer and Level 3 coach, Dr. Neiva's original academic interest was in training and competition,

specifically swimming. His interest in exercise and health, and specifically in technological development, has emerged in the last two years due to his recent post-doctoral research with the NanoSTIMA project at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Research Centre for Sports Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development (UTAD/CIDESD). He has been a member of the CIDESD since 2015.
