Rui Soles Gonçalves is a physiotherapist who graduated from the Coimbra Health School (1997). Rui Soles Gonçalves holds a PhD in Human Motricity, with a specialization in Physiotherapy, from the Faculty of Human Motricity, Technical University of Lisbon (2010), and currently serves as a coordinating professor at the Coimbra Health School, Polytechnic University of Coimbra. Rui Soles Gonçalves 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). Research interests include exercise and physical therapy across a range of musculoskeletal conditions, with a particular emphasis on knee osteoarthritis. Areas of expertise include clinimetrics, patient-reported outcome measures, performance-based outcome measures, human movement analysis, isokinetic dynamometry, physical activity, and exercise prescription. Rui Soles Gonçalves is a supervisor of master's and doctoral theses in the field of physiotherapy, and an author and co-author of several peer-reviewed publications in international journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science.
Dr. Anabela Correia Martins is a coordinating professor at the School of Health Technology of the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, and a researcher affiliated with the Health and Technology Research Center (H&TRC), and CIR, ESS, Polytechnic of Oporto. She graduated in Physiotherapy in 1989 from the School of Health Technology of the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra. She received a master’s degree in Sociology in 2001 from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and a Ph.D. in Psychology—Branch of Health Psychology—in 2009 from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto. From 1989 to 2002, she worked in clinical practice at the Coimbra University Hospital and Center, Portugal, and at the Hurley Medical Center, USA. Her research topics mainly include physiotherapy, rehabilitation, public health, active and healthy aging, fall prevention, digital physiotherapy, assistive technologies, gerontechnology, functioning, and disability (ICF). She is an author and co-author of several peer-reviewed publications in international journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science.
