Dr. Janssen completed a bachelor’s in sports medicine (Pepperdine University, USA) and a master’s in exercise and sports science (University of Sydney, Australia). She then completed her Ph.D. at the Australian Institute of Sport, in collaboration with the University of Wollongong under the supervision of Prof. Julie Steele, and investigated the relationship between landing technique, knee loading, and jumper’s knee in volleyball players. Since 2012, Dr. Janssen has been the sports biomechanist responsible for athlete testing at the Olympic Training Centre (Papendal) in the Netherlands. Her daily work ranges from ACL screening for junior handball players to testing different prosthetics for Paralympic long jumpers, and measure pedal forces in Olympic BMX-ers. She is a member of the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports and has reviewed for various scientific journals.

Born in Melbourne, Australia, Alicia obtained her undergraduate degree in physiotherapy and subsequent master’s in sports physiotherapy from Latrobe University. She is also qualified in dry needling, clinical pilates, and ASCA Level 1.

Alicia has worked across a variety of national and international sports, including AFL, baseball, and ice hockey. During her career, which spans over 10 years in professional sport, she has also worked for EXOS, formerly Athletes Performance, and supported the

Chinese Olympic Team for Rio 2016.

She is currently lead women’s physiotherapist for the FA including management of the Senior Women’s team and coordinating down the pathway.

Sami Kuitunen is a sports scientist, who currently works as head of football biomechanics in Aspire Academy developing best practices in football (soccer) biomechanics in a professional youth academy set-up. He has more than 20 years of experience in the field of sports biomechanics working with various sports and athletes from youth to Olympic level. He has attended Olympic Games, World Championships, and other international competitions to provide sports science support in biomechanics. His passion is to bring biomechanics from laboratory to the field as a part of daily training practice. Sami started his career as a researcher and coach in athletics. He holds a PhD. in biomechanics from University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, and has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles and authored numerous coaching publications and congress presentations. In 2005, he took the position of senior biomechanist in Aspire Academy in Doha, Qatar, where he was establishing and developing the operations in sports biomechanics since its inauguration. After six years in Doha, he moved back to Finland, where he was working from 2011 to 2015 with national team athletes in e.g. athletics and speed skating. He was leading sports biomechanics at the Research Institute for Olympic Sports (KIHU) as part of the National Research and Development Program of the Finnish Olympic Committee’s High-Performance Unit. In addition to the biomechanical support service provision to national team athletes and coaches, he was collaborating with other research institutes in Finland for applied sports research and technological innovations.Sami is a sports science practitioner, who enjoys working with athletes and coaches and strives to make an impact on athletes’ daily training quality by utilising biomechanics and technology.

Garreth Farrell is a physiotherapist with over 20 years’ experience. He completed his undergraduate education at Brighton University, UK and his masters at Curtin University, Australia. He has worked in rugby for the past 10 years with Leinster Rugby in Dublin. He has worked on tour with Ireland Rugby for both their senior and ‘A’ sides. He is the lead physiotherapist with a growing staff with a focus on rehabilitating players to perform and optimising on-field performance. Along with his clinical work, Garreth does some lecturing at the undergraduate and master’s level physiotherapy programs at University College Dublin. He has presented at numerous conferences, the most recent being the IOC conference in Monaco in March 2017. He has a big interest in research and has been published in numerous journals on EMG activation, tackle technique in rugby, blood biomarkers in concussions, and an MRI study profiling the health of hips in elite level rugby players. He is currently undertaking a study investigating syndesmotic injury in rugby.

Arthur Praetorius is a sports scientist focusing on prevention and rehabilitation in sports, as well as human biomechanical and performance diagnostics. While working at Ruhr Universität Bochum, his field of research was the loading of the spine in elite sports and the influences on performance.

At the Sports Clinic Duisburg, Arthur developed the sports medical institute and established the rehabilitation for academy athletes from the second league team MSV Duisburg. Currently, Arthur is the head of sports science at BG Clinic Duisburg and responsible for the innovation development at the motion lab of the Athletikum Rhein Ruhr. Athletikum Rhein Ruhr has been founded to improve the evidence of sports-related injury prevention and rehabilitation and optimize clinical diagnostics at the highest technical level.

Scot McAllister graduated from the University of Huddersfield in 1999 with a B.Sc. Hons 1st Class in physiotherapy, and completed an M.Sc. in musculoskeletal medicine from the University of Middlesex, London in 2015. Whilst beginning his career as a physiotherapist within the UK’s National Health Service, for the last 16 years he has worked extensively in professional sport, most notably with the Lancashire, Yorkshire and England Lions Cricket Teams (2001 – 2013), Scottish Rugby Union Sevens (2013-14) and Manchester City F.C. (2014 to present). In this latter role, Mr. McAlister was appointed to head of physiotherapy (Academy) in December 2015, working with Manchester City’s aspiring 9 to 23-year olds, as well as the Manchester City Women’s Team.

He loves to help empower patients to enable them to have greater insight and skills in how they manage themselves physically and psychosocially as sportsmen and women, but more importantly as people. Mr. McAlister is passionate about using the best available evidence in order to develop clinically evidenced rehabilitation processes to help ensure a seamless return to performance for all players that he works with.

Diane Ryding is the head physiotherapist for the Foundation and Youth Development Phases at Manchester United FC. She received her B.Sc. (HONS) in physiotherapy from Manchester University in 2000, before commencing work as a physiotherapist at the Royal Bolton Hospital where she would work for the next decade. Diane undertook her physiotherapy rotations before progressing to a static senior role in musculoskeletal outpatients.On leaving the NHS, she was employed as a highly specialist physiotherapist in orthopaedic outpatients and had a role in the Extended Scope Upper Limb Clinics. She received her M.Sc. in musculoskeletal physiotherapy in 2010 from Manchester Metropolitan University. In 2004, Diane commenced work as a casual academy physiotherapist at Manchester United that involved working evenings and weekends alongside her NHS role. Over the next few years, she progressed to the role of assistant head academy physiotherapist before taking over as head academy physiotherapist in 2010. During her time with Manchester United, Diane has seen a significant expansion in the academy system both in terms of the number of staff involved in supporting academy players along with the medical requirements of an evolving academy programme.

Diane is currently involved in research around cardiac profiling in academy footballers. She also works for the English Football Association as an FA affiliate medical tutor.

Mr. Maldifassi graduated from the Polytechnic University of Milan. Stefano is a technological manager and scientific executive of the new project MilanLab. His responsible areas include planning of intervention strategies, project processing, tests organization and structuration, data analysis, training and outreach of internal resources. He is also responsible for athletic preparation of goalkeepers. Mr. Maldifassi identified, created and followed important projects of a partnership between CONI and Ferrari (research and development project of Olympic Preparation) and between CONI, FISIand Polytechnic of Milan (creation of “Sports Technology Lab” of Mechanics Department).

Mr. Vavassori has a bachelor’s degree in sports science and physical activity from the University of Granada, Spain. He has a master’s degree in football injuries prevention and rehabilitation from the University of Castilla la Mancha, Spanish Football Association, and Spanish Olympic Committee. He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist of the NSCA. He has more than 9 years experience as an S&C coach, sports scientist, and rehabilitation fitness coach working with Olympic medallists and Olympic athletes, professional players, and young prospects in team and individual sports.

Simon Roth had studied media technology at the University of Applied Science in Wiesbaden before he decided to work with patients and became a physiotherapist seven years ago. He quickly began to combine the two interests and started to implement the EMG into his daily treatment into the practice (Physioteam Florian Gündel) in Mainz.

He has several certificates in manual therapy (Maitland) and neurological treatment (PNF) as well as training therapy. Looking back at over 10.000 EMG assessments and biofeedback treatments over the past 7 years, Simon looks back at a huge expertise in finding the relevance of EMG for daily therapy and training. Simon founded MYOact in 2017 and became an external consultant for several football clubs in Germany like Mainz 05, Borussia Mönchengladbach, and Bayer Leverkusen. Furthermore, he has been an invited speaker for several Premier League Teams as well as EIS and German Olympic Centers. Caring about the hard facts, Simon is currently working on several studies about EMG in clinical assessments and sports.

Andreas Top Adler is a performance engineer for Team Denmark working with the Danish Olympic Athletes and their coaches. He supports athletes and coaches in choosing, developing and testing technology, and materials and equipment. He works across different sports federations in Denmark, including Danish World Class federations such as cycling, sailing, badminton, and swimming.

Ed Lippie currently serves as the head performance coach at AS Roma where he collaborates with each and every member of AS Roma’s Performance Department and coaching staff to provide scientifically based training, rehabilitation, and recovery methods for all of AS Roma’s first team and academy players. Before working with AS Roma, Ed applied the same functional training philosophy to his work with professional, Olympic, and amateur athletes in the United States, most notably at Mike Boyle Strength and Conditioning in Boston, Massachusetts.

Mr. Blab graduated from the University of Konstanz with a master’s degree in sports science, mainly focusing on biomechanics and physiology. From 2012 to 2015, he was a research fellow at Fraunhofer IPA, Dept. Biomechatronic Systems. Nowadays, Mr. Blab is a group manager of Applied Biomechanics at Fraunhofer IPA.

Thomas Hock has a master’s degree in sports science focusing on biomechanics and is currently working as sales manager Europe within sports services at Simi Reality Motion Systems GmbH, the world leading developer of image-based 3D Motion Capture Solutions. He is an expert in the Motion Capture Industry and responsible for the implementation of new technologies in professional sports. He is involved in the development of biomechanical services and solutions to national/international federations and professional teams and the realization of concepts to bring biomechanical analysis into daily training and competitions.