Francesca Vitali

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•   CV_FrancescaVitali_EN   (pdf, it, 825 KB, 19/10/20)
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Francesca Vitali is currently Assistant Professor (Senior Researcher, RTD-B) at the 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. She has been teaching Sport and Exercise Psychology for ten years at the School of Sport Sciences, University of Genoa. In 2014 she won a Research Grant and she started collaborating with CeRiSM (Centre of Research in Sport, Mountain and Health), University of Verona. From 2015 to 2019 she has been Research Fellow at the University of Verona.

She has published/in press several research articles and book chapters. Her research agenda has been on the understanding of 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 has been the Scientific Coordinator for the University of Verona Team of the co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union projects Be a Winner In elite Sport and Employment before and after athletic Retirement (BeWiser) and Dual Careers for Mental Health (DC4MH): the projects were focused respectively on optimizing active and former elite athletes’ employability and employment after sport retirement and on improving mental health for dual career elite athletes. She is also the Scientific Coordinator of the co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union project Sport Without Stereotypes (SWOST): this project started in January 2021 and will end in December 2023.

Together with Federico Schena, since the academic year (a.y.) 2017/2018 she is the Scientific Director of the Academic Coach project, a peer-tutorship project offered at the students-athletes to support their dual careers (intended as a positive combination of academic and sporting tasks) at the University of Verona. The project is promoted and implemented thanks to the coordination of the CUS Verona, the University Sports Committee of the University of Verona and the ESU Verona.

Furthermore, she is currently the Editor for the Psicologia dello Sport e dell'Esercizio (En. tr. Sport and Exercise Psychology), the new official journal of the Associazione Italiana Psicologia dello Sport e dell'esercizio (AIPS, Italian Association of Sport and Exercise Psychology) (which replaced the Giornale Italiano di Psicologia dello Sport).

She chaired the XXth AIPS 2014 National Congress which has been held in Rovereto, Italy. She co-chaired the XXIth AIPS 2016 National Congress which has been held in Bologna, Italy. From 2014 to 2016 she has been the National President of the Associazione Italiana Psicologia dello Sport e dell'esercizio (AIPS).

As Sport Psychologist she has been working with youth top-level athletes of different sports (i.e., Shooting Italian Olympic Youth National Team; Trentino' Junior Cross Country Skiing Team; Track and Field Youth National Team; Rugby Female National Team). She collaborates as Expert with the School of Sport of Sport e Salute, funded by Ministry of Sport and Youth Politics. Since 2019 she has a “Consultancy with training assignment” collaboration with the Italian Rugby Federation. Since 2017 she is the scientific responsible of the Center of studies of the Assist - the Italian Association of Female Athletes.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7991-1290
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francesca_Vitali5
https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesca-vitali/

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