Anne-Marie Elbe
University Of Leipzig
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Anne-Marie Elbe is a Full Professor of Sport Psychology at the Faculty of Sport Science at Leipzig University, Germany. Her previous posts were at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK; and the University of Potsdam, Germany. Her publications and research interests focus on the motivational and self-regulatory aspects of athletic performance, talent development, anti-doping, the integrative role of sport, and the development of sport psychology scales.
Anne-Marie Elbe is currently on the editorial board of Psychology of Sport and Exercise and Science and Medicine in Football. Anne-Marie Elbe has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, nine monographs, and 22 book chapters. She is the past President of FEPSAC, the European Federation of Sport Psychology, and a member of the Scientific Board of ECSS (European College of Sport Science). She leads the international two-year master‘s program in Sport and Exercise Psychology at Leipzig University.
Magni Mohr
University of the Faroe Islands
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Magni Mohr is Professor in Human Physiology at the University of the Faroe Islands and Professor in Human Movement at the University of Southern Denmark. He has published around 300 articles in international scientific journals, as well as several book chapters and books.
Professor Mohr has an H-index of 66 and more than 30.000 citations. Most of his research is on exercise physiology, exercise as medicine, and health promotion, as well as physiological mechanisms associated with health and human performance. His research has been translated into several sports or exercise training concepts to promote health across the life span tailored for children, sedentary people, elderly and different patient groups, which are being applied to train teachers, health care professionals and hospital staff. Magni Mohr has won several international awards for his research and is a common keynote speaker at international conferences around the world.
He has worked for high-ranking research groups at universities in Denmark, United Kingdom and Sweden before returning to the Faroe Islands in 2014. Professor Mohr also serves as Dean at the Faculty of Health and Prorector for Research at the University of the Faroe Islands.
Peter Krustrup
University of Southern Denmark
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Peter Krustrup is 55 years old and Professor of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU), and Honorary Visiting Professor at Exeter University, United Kingdom. He is also Chair of Health Sciences at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS) at SDU. He has is the most published researcher in Football Science worldwide, with +300 articles on football.
In total, he has published 475 peer-reviewed scientific articles on Sport as Medicine, Performance in Elite Sports and Exercise Physiology, along with several books and book chapters, with more than 40000 citations and an H-index of 97. He is a UEFA Pro-Licensed football coach, since 2017, and has worked as Assistant Coach for the Danish Women’s National Team, and Fitness Coach for Odense Boldklub (OB) in the Danish Men’s Premier League. He is currently a Football Science Consultant in OB. He won a bronze medal at the Women’s Euro 2013.
He played +200 matches in the Danish Second Division and the Fourth Tier for Vanloese IF. He has contributed to the development of the evidence-based football concepts “Football Fitness”, “11 for Health”, “FIT FIRST 10”, “FIT FIRST 20”, “FIT FIRST Teen”, “Football for the Heart”, “FC Prostate” and “Football Fitness After Breast Cancer” and has contributed to new testing, tracking and training approaches in football. In 2018, he established the international scientific platform, Football is Medicine platform (FIM), with annual scientific conferences.
He is the Chairman of FIM, which constitutes 300 researchers from 25 countries. He has won several research communication awards, including the University of Copenhagen Science Communication Award (2007), the Sports Prize of the Year (2017), the Research Communication Award at SDU (2021), and the UEFA Grassroots Award (2023).
Pedro Saint-Maurice
Champalimaud Foundation
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Dr. Pedro Saint-Maurice is a well-recognised international leader in Epidemiology and currently leads the Physical Activity & Quality of Life Lab at the Champalimaud Foundation. His research focuses on understanding how physical activity and sleep impact cancer outcomes, with a particular emphasis on developing evidence-based exercise interventions to enhance treatment tolerance, improve survivorship, and enhance overall quality of life.
A central part of his work involves translating wearable-derived metrics—such as walking cadence and sleep patterns—into clinically meaningful tools for risk stratification and personalized oncology care.
Dr. Saint-Maurice has an outstanding track record in examining how physical activity affects chronic disease risk, especially cancer, and his research has contributed directly to shaping the current U.S. Physical Activity Guidelines for adults. Ongoing projects in his lab include a randomized trial investigating resistance exercise and breast tumor biomarkers, and a long-term study characterizing sleep during neoadjuvant chemotherapy using a contactless under-mattress sleep sensor.