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Positions: Professor of Kinesiology at University of Guelph.
Professor at Norwegian School of Sport Science.
Visiting Professor at: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland; Catholic University of Leuven Belgium; University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Member Editorial Board of International Journal of Aquatic Research and Education.
Member of Scientific Committee, The Lifesaving Foundation Honorary.
Member of the International Drowning Research Alliance.
Hall of Fame, Univ of Guelph Athletics Dept.
Royal Lifesaving Society board of Directors.
Board of Directors, Norwegian Lifesaving Society.
Research Assistant, Canadian Wildlife Service.
Research Assistant, Norwegian Arctic Research Institute.
Research: He has over 50 published research papers in his name as the lead or associate author. He is a member of The International ‘Can You Swim?’ Project team which is attempting to define ‘being able to swim’. The project team published “From Swimming Skill to Water Competence: Towards a More Inclusive Drowning Prevention Future” and “Guiding Principles: Water Competence to Drowning Prevention”. With his friends and colleagues Bob set out to identify the essential competencies which should be learned/taught for drowning prevention. Supporting each with research evidence. They urged that “water competence must take on a more comprehensive role in water safety education, especially related to drowning prevention”. Other papers of his include “Decrement in Swimming Performance with Added Burden of Outer Clothing” and “The Effect of Waves on the Performance of Five Different Swimming Strokes” and “Can You Swim: Real and Perceived Water Competency Among Young Adults.
Coaching: Gryphon Swimming & Diving Coach.
Swim Ontario Board Vice President.
Vice President Canadian Amateur Swim Association.
Coached National Champions Skip Phoenix, Ann Walton, Mike Hawkes, Alison Bays, Joy Stratten and several national medallists including Larry Hurd, Mike Lackowicz, Sandy Jamieson, Ross Armstrong and Alan Fairweather.
Taught Aquatics in the Departments of Physical Education and Human Kinetics at University of Guelph.
Board of Directors, Norwegian Swimming Federation.
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Positions: Full professor of Biomechanics at the Porto University (UP).
2022 ISBS Geoffrey Dyson Award winner.
President of the Faculty of Sport, University of Porto, Representatives Council.
President of the International Council Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming.
Head of the Porto Biomechanics Laboratory, University of Porto.
Vice-President of the Olympic Committee of Portugal.
Research: Author of about 800 conferences and presentations, both in Portugal and abroad.
Author of about 430 peer-reviewed international scientific and technical publications (more than 300 indexed at SCOPUS) SCOPUS “h” index = 34; 4329 citations.
Author or editor of 15 books, both at national and international levels.
Supervisor or co-supervisor of 100 M.Sc. and 45 Ph.D. Thesis in Portugal or abroad.
Coaching: Swimming coach for more than 20 years. Three times “Coach of the Year” of the Port. Swim. Coaches Ass., and three times National Teams Portuguese Champion.
Coached bronze medalists in Dunkerque and Malta European Junior Championships.
Olympic Coach at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004.
www: https://labiomep.up.pt/about/members/facultystaff/jpvb/

Positions: Jan Prins is a Professor in the Department of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Science at the University of Hawaii, where he has taught Sport Biomechanics for the past 44 years. He is also the Director of Swimming Biomechanics, Inc. The company has recently launched Freestyle Biomechanics, a video-on-demand software program which focusses on improving swimming stroke mechanics, particularly for Triathletes and Open-Water Swimmers.
Research: He is also the Founder and Director of the Aquatic Research Laboratory, whose research focus has been the use of multiple high-speed cameras in the biomechanical analysis of swimming stroke mechanics and aquatic rehabilitation. A number of world class swimmers, including Olympic and world have been tested at the facility. The resulting research has been presented at international biomechanics and swimming conferences, including the ASCA World Swimming Coaches Clinics, and on two occasions he has had the honor of being a presenter at the International Symposia – Science & Swimming, here at the University of Wrocław. He was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Swimming Research.
Coaching: In addition to his faculty duties at the University of Hawaii, he served as Head Men’s Swimming Coach. During his tenure his teams placed in the “top 20” at the NCAA “Division I” Championships, and in the “top 10” at the USS Senior Indoor Championships. He has served as an Olympic and Paralympic swimming coach, and as a coach with the U.S. Armed Forces Wounded Warrior program.
www: https://coe.hawaii.edu/directory/jprins

Positions: Full professor at University of Granada.
Head (IP) Singular Aquatics Lab at University of Granada.
Biomechanics of the Spanish Swimming Team [RFEN].
Professor of the National School of Coaches of the Royal Spanish Swimming Federation.
Responsible Analyst of the National Swimming Team, Royal Spanish Swimming Federation.
Biomechanist and Analyst of Fred Vergnoux’s Swimming Group, a group in which among others Mireia Belmonte was in her preparation for the Tokyo Olympics.
Biomechanist and Analyst the swimmers and preparing the strategy of their participations in the World Swimming Championships Barcelona 2013.
Research: He is the author of several scientific papers and conference contributions related with swimming biomechanics, developing new systems of fluid visualization, enabling us to know how water interacts with the body and its propulsive segments, vortices production, swimming start force recording, and race analysis.
Coaching: He has participated in a number of international projects dealing with the analysis of swimming competition, including 1992 and 2000 Olympic Games, 1993 FINA Short course World Swimming Championships, the 2001 European Swimming Championships, and the 2003 FINA World Swimming Championships. He developed and directed the Biomechanics Lab (1994-99) in the Altitude Training Centre of Sierra Nevada (Granada, Spain) and cooperated in the design of the 50m indoor swimming pool. During this period of research and advice more than five thousand swimmers were tested and evaluated from many different countries.
www: https://www.ugr.es/en/staff/raul-arellano-colomina

Positions: Jernej Kapus is an associate professor at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Sport, Slovenia. He holds a Bsc degree in physical education, an Msc and a PhD degree in kinesiology.
Research: He is a module leader for swimming 1 and basic rescue techniques, for swimming 2 and school in nature with water activities. In addition to providing scientific support to a number of individual swimmers, Jernej has also provided scientific support to the Slovenian Swimming Association.
Jernej’s research focuses primarily on respiratory limitations in swimming and methods to ameliorate them, including respiratory muscle training and training with reduced breathing. He has published widely in many scientific journals. In addition, his experts also deal with swimming didactics. He is the author of a website with video clips of many exercises, which is recognised as a useful tool for swimming instructors.
Coaching: He is collaborator with the Slovenia Swimming Federation.
www: https://www.fsp.uni-lj.si/en/our-faculty/staff/33/

Positions: Professor (PhD) in the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança and Member of the Research Centre for Active Living and Wellbeing (LiveWell), Instituto Politécnico de Bragança, Bragança, Portugal.
Research:The main research interests are the biomechanical and physiological determinants of swimming, and performance analysis. He has done extensive research on young swimmers’ anthropometrics, stroke mechanics and hydrodynamics based on a talent identification perspective. These contributions aimed to advance the swimming community on understanding of how different factors such as swim technique and drag reduction affect swimming performance through a holistic perspective.
Coaching: He is collaborator with the Portuguese Swimming Federation (in the specific fields: training evaluation and race analysis).
www: https://cidesd.pt/researcher/jorge-filipe-estrela-morais/

Positions: Assistant Professor, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society
Assistant Professor, School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society, Institute for Life and Earth Sciences
Research: Dr Tomohiro (Tomo) Gonjo has been working on Swimming Science over the last decade, particularly focusing on Swimming Biomechanics. Despite his main research field being Biomechanics, Tomo is passionate about multidisciplinary research and has combined Biomechanical methods with Physiological and Motor control approaches, which has led to over 30 high-impact published studies in the last five years. He is particularly passionate about applying scientific methods and thinking in practical settings.
Coaching: Tomo had been a coach for a university swimming team where he coached regional, national, and international level swimmers before he started pursuing his academic career. He has also been involved in performance testing and feedback for senior elite and youth swimmers in Scotland, Portugal, Norway, and Japan. He is currently an external staff member for Japanese-Para swimming, where he supports the national team in international competitions and training camps.
www: https://researchportal.hw.ac.uk/en/persons/tomohiro-gonjo