Prof. Magni Mohr

Prof.Magni Mohr completed his postgraduate Master of Science in Human Physiology at the University of Copenhagen in 2001 and obtained his PhD in Exercise Physiology from the same institution in 2008. He has been the founder and leader of the iNOVA Human Performance Laboratory in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands, since 2014. Since 2016, he has been actively engaged in public health initiatives as the Chairman of the Board of Public Health for the Faroe Islands. In the same year, he took on the role of head of the Center for Health Sciences, a collaborative effort involving the University of the Faroe Islands, the Faroese National Hospital, and the Department of Occupational and Public Health, a position he held until 2019. In August 2017, he was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Faroe Islands and has served as a member of the Steering Group of the Center for Health Science since May 2019. Since 2019, he has represented Europe in the Steering Group of the World Congress of Science and Football (WCSF) and the World Congress of Science and Soccer (WCSS). Additionally, he has been the Pro-rector for Research and Enterprise at the University of the Faroe Islands since February 2020. His research has focused on skeletal muscle fatigue during high-intensity intermittent exercise, investigating factors such as fitness training, pharmacological and nutritional supplements, exercise intensity, duration, recovery, heat stress, and hypoxia. He emphasizes the significance of team sports participation and the health benefits of exercise training, discussing exercise in the context of preventing and treating lifestyle diseases under the concept of “Exercise is Medicine.” Prof.Magni Mohr has been an invited speaker at numerous scientific conferences and international sports physiology meetings, presenting over 120 abstracts since 2001, alongside 15 international podcasts. He has authored four books and published 161 peer-reviewed articles in high-impact journals from 2002 to the present. Since 1998, he has contributed ten scientific book chapters and 25 articles to sports magazines in English, Danish, or Faroese. He served as a section editor for the Journal of Sport Sciences from 2015 to 2018 and was the editor of the "Fróðskaparrit" at the University of the Faroe Islands from 2015 to 2020. Additionally, he was the guest editor for a Special Issue on Women's Football in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sport in 2021-2022. He has received several prestigious awards, including the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports Award for Best Scientific Paper in 2004, the National Presenter of Science Award (Faroe Islands) in 2018, and the International Incredible Impact Award in 2022 for the Football is Medicine conference held in 2020.

Prof. Nenad Stojiljković

Prof. Nenad Stojiljković completed his doctoral degree in Sports and Physical Education at the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Niš, from 2008 to 2015. He began his academic career in 2008 as an assistant in the History of Physical Culture course at the same faculty. In 2015, he was appointed assistant professor of Scientific Research Methodology in Sport and Physical Education, and he attained the title of associate professor in 2020. He also completed his post-doctoral studies at the Faculty of Kinesiology in Zagreb from 2018 to 2019. Since 2018, he has served as the Vice Dean for Science and International Cooperation at the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Niš, where he is also the head of the doctoral program. He has participated in various projects as a lecturer under the European Commission ERASMUS+ program, including at the Olomouc Faculty of Physical Culture in the Czech Republic and the Trikala Faculty of Sport and Physical Education in Greece in 2017, as well as at the Kaunas Sports Academy in Lithuania in 2017 and Sv. Cyril and Methodius University in Bulgaria in 2016. Since 2010, Prof. Nenad Stojiljković has worked as a researcher on two national scientific projects: "Physical Activity and Fitness Components in the Older" and "Development and Integration of Technology of Projecting Intelligent Mechatronical Interface for Application in Medicine (HUMANISM)." Between 2012 and 2014, he served as an expert consultant for the project "We Are Athletes Too," which supports individuals with disabilities and is funded by the Ministry of Youth and Sport of the Republic of Serbia. In 2017, he contributed as an expert to the preparation of the strategic plan for sports tourism development in the cross-border region of Vršac (Bulgaria) and Pirot (Serbia), financed by the European Commission. From 2013 to 2015, he worked as an expert on the international project ESF 3.102 Inclusion for Employment in Malta, funded by the EU Social Fund. Since 2016, he has been regularly teaching at UEFA B coaching seminars for football coaches and serves as an instructor in licensing seminars for ski coaches and instructors. Prof. Nenad Stojiljković has published over 50 scientific articles, several of which have appeared in prestigious international journals. He has participated in more than 20 international scientific conferences across Europe and has been actively involved in the organizing and scientific committees of various international scientific conferences.

Prof. Jorge Mota

Prof. Jorge Mota received his PhD in Sports Sciences from the Faculty of Sports Sciences at the University of Porto. During his doctoral studies, he completed an internship at Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln in Germany and spent a semester at San Diego State University in the United States. He is currently a professor specializing in Sports, Recreation and Leisure, as well as Health Education and Promotion, at the Faculty of Sports Sciences in Portugal. He served as Dean of the Faculty for two years, from 1996 to 1998, and was the President of the Faculty Scientific Board from 2006 to 2010. Since 2000, he has held the position of President of the General Assembly. Additionally, he is the coordinator of the Center for Research in Physical Activity, Health, and Leisure (CIAFEL) and the director of the Physiotherapy doctoral program. His primary research focus is on physical activity and its health effects, particularly its relationship with non-communicable diseases. He is also actively involved in the development and implementation of programs aimed at promoting physical activity and health. Since 2004, he has been the director of the Research Centre in Physical Activity, Health, and Leisure, which is supported by the Portuguese Scientific Foundation. He serves on the editorial boards of Preventive Medicine and the Journal of Physical Activity and Health, and has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals.