Pedro Morouço, PhD ORCID: 0000-0002-5956-9790 Researcher ID: K-9545-2013 Scopus Author ID: 24339135400 Date of birth: 4th September 1981 Pedro Morouço, PhD is Associate Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, where he is the Director of the Master Degree in Exercise Prescription and Health Promotion and the Director of the Human Kinetics Department. Belongs to the Scientific Council, and was the President of the Represents Assembly (2013-16). He is Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist by the National Strength and Conditioning Association working on the development of tailored exercise programs (e.g. Principal investigator of “2bio4cartilage – Integrated intervention program for prevention and treatment of cartilage lesions; POCI-01-0145-FEDER-023423 co-financed COMPETE2020 under PT2020 programme, and supported by FEDER), and Exercise is Medicine® - Level 1 certified. Under the National Program on Physical Activity Prescription in Primary Care, he is the Exercise Physiologist at the Health Family Unit – Santiago (Leiria). After spending 5 years at the Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Development of Product (CDRsp), leading the Biofabrication Research Group (on average 12 researchers), he is currently integrated investigator at the Neuromechanics Research Group of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Human Performance (CIPER), and collaborates closely with the Research Center in Sports Sciences, Health Sciences and Human Development (CIDESD). His research activity focuses, mostly, on products and processes engineering, aiming to bringing the gap between the lab and in vivo applications. In the last years, he has been invited to collaborate in several national and international projects, and, despite his young age, he has co-edited books, authored and co-authored more than 200 scientific works, is member of the scientific committees in various conferences, member of the Advisory Board on TERM for Cambridge Scholars Publishing and editorial member in various journals, and invited speaker for various conferences (e.g. TERMIS EU 2019 and icSPORTS 2018). Pedro Morouço belongs to the Directors Board of the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports and the Portuguese Swimming Federation. He is the Coordinator of the Swimming Academy, at Sapienta Sports, and Teacher for various private companies (e.g. Bwizer and Clínica das Conchas). Above all, Pedro is a humble researcher that understand the values of working as a team. Natural leader to reinforce the strengths and bridge weaknesses, developing new ideas and thinking outside the box. He is aware of the role of science for society awareness, thus, he developed skills to be able to reach wider audiences (e.g. winner of the AJE method publishing competition, 2 awards in the National Science Communications Contests and representative of Portugal in an international event), without jeopardizing the scientific inputs (as recognized in 2017 by the Hans Gros Emerging Researcher Award). Supervision of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows: 26; Teaching activities: Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Polytechnic Institute of Santarém; Editor-in-Chief: Journal of Sports Research; Associated Editor (Biomechanics): Revista Motricidade; Editorial Board: 4 indexed journals; Reviewer activity: on average 40 manuscripts per year; Patents and registrations: 2018 – National Patent on fist control device for training and functional rehabilitation; 2018 – Registered Trademark: AGILIDADES; 2017 – National Patent for Easy Blood Crossmatch.