DSc. Carlos A. Herrera Amante is the General Coordinator of the Ibero-American Network of Researchers in Applied Anthropometry (RIBA2) and the General Director of the Ibero-American Institute of Sports Science and Human Movement (IICDEM). He holds a doctorate in Sports Education and Sports Sciences from the University of Baja California (UBC), Mexico, and two master's degrees in Sports Nutrition from the Real Madrid Graduate School, Universidad Europea, Spain, and the Universidad del Valle de México. He earned his bachelor's degree in Nutrition from the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), where he currently serves as the Head of the Laboratory for Nutritional Status Evaluation and Care (LECEN) and as a professor of Sports Nutrition and Exercise Physiology. He has been an instructor on more than 100 international accreditation courses in kinanthropometry and is a Level 3 anthropometrist certified by the International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry (ISAK). He has worked as a scientific advisor for elite and Olympic Mexican athletes. His career includes participation in over 300 national and international conferences, as well as the authorship and co-authorship of scientific articles, book chapters, and one book. In 2018, he received the ISAK Young Investigator Award in Santiago, Chile. His research areas include kinanthropometry, sports nutrition, bioenergetics, and physical performance assessments.
Wiliam Carvajal-Veitia has earned a BS in Biology (1999), M.Sc. in Anthropology (2005), and a PhD in Physical Culture Sciences (2018) from the Havana University. He is now a Researcher in the Institute of Sports Medicine, Havana, Cuba. His scientific publications come from more than 10 anthropological projects, which he developed to solve problems related to the anthropological characteristics of Cuban athletes. The implementation of these projects resulted in biomedical monitoring appearing in the Olympics from the Athens 2004 games to the present, including in the Paris 2024 games. Carvajal is member of the Coordinating Committee of the Ibero-American Network of Researchers in Applied Anthropometry and also of the International Society for the Advancement in Kinanthropometry, Level 3. He received the Nacional Prize of the Cuban Academy of Sciences 2022 and the Order of Sports Merit of the Cuban Republic in 2024. His research interests include morphological evolutions in athletes, morphological optimization for sports, body composition, applied statistics, and the history of sports sciences.
