Rui Soles Gonçalves is a physiotherapist who graduated from the Coimbra Health School in 1997. He holds a PhD in Human Motricity, with a specialization in Physiotherapy, from the Faculty of Human Motricity at the Technical University of Lisbon, awarded in 2010. He currently serves as a Coordinating Professor at the Coimbra Health School, part of the Polytechnic University of Coimbra. He is a researcher affiliated with the Health and Technology Research Center (H&TRC), the Center for Innovation in Biomedicine and Biotechnology (CIBB), and the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Human Performance (CIPER). His research focuses on exercise and physical therapy for musculoskeletal conditions, with a particular emphasis on knee osteoarthritis. His areas of expertise include clinimetrics, patient-reported outcome measures, performance-based outcome measures, human movement analysis, isokinetic dynamometry, physical activity, and exercise prescription. He supervises master’s and doctoral theses in the field of physiotherapy and is the author or co-author of numerous peer-reviewed publications in international journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science.
