Sport Sciences

People with expertise in this area
Research interests

Luca Paolo Ardigo': Associate Professor
Matteo Bertucco: Associate Professor
Paola Cesari: Associate Professor
Massimo Lanza: Associate Professor
Federico Schena: Full Professor

Cantor Tarperi: Associate Professor
Massimo Venturelli: Associate Professor
Francesca Vitali: Temporary Assistant Professor
Paola Zamparo: Full Professor

Research interests
Topic	People	Description
Adapted Physical Activities	Massimo Lanza	Physical activities and sports adapted to the needs of elderly people, people with disabilities and/or chronic illnesses with the aim of improving their psycho-physical condition, autonomy and well-being.
Biomechanics	Matteo Bertucco	Biomechanics is concerned with the mechanical / anatomical bases of human movement. An interdisciplinary approach is used in which materials from anatomy, physiology and physics (mechanics) are integrated.
Biomechanics and Exercise Physiology	Paola Zamparo	the interplay between the biomechanics and energetics of human locomotion: i. e. how the mechanical determinants of cyclic sports activities (such as cycling, swimming and running) influence their physiological responses.
Physical education	Massimo Lanza	Epistemology, methods and didactics of the education of youth movement in school and their overall education through the movement.
Educazione fisica, prestazioni sportive ed attività fisiche adattate	Federico Schena Cantor Tarperi	.
Exercise physiology - Aging,	Massimo Venturelli	The area of research includes age-related mechanisms that limit exercise capacity associated to the healthy lifestyle (centenarians), mobility limitations (frailty), and cognitive impairment (Alzheimer’s disease). With an integrative and translational approach, I am focusing on the role of vascular and mitochondrial function, associated to longevity, age-related disease, and dementia.
Gender differences in sport and exercise	Francesca Vitali	Gender differences in sport and exercise; gender inequalities, discrimination, prejudice; gender equity in participation and access to sport; contrasting gender stereotypes and all forms of gender discriminations and violence based on gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity in sport.
Training methodology and sport performance.	Luca Paolo Ardigo' Federico Schena Cantor Tarperi	The topics of this area include the scientific basis and the research development of training methodology in order to improve/optimize sport performance and related functional evaluation
Sport-Neuroscience	Paola Cesari
Student-athlete dual career and career transitions	Francesca Vitali	Existing public policies on the employability of (semi)professional student-athletes in the EU countries; athletic retirement and current public EU policies supporting (former)elite studenty-athletes in the transition from the retirement from sporting career to the first employment in the labour market; evidence-based good-practice examples and areas of development in promoting student-athletes employability; promoting the mental health of elite dual-career athletes.