Autor: Hugo Sarmento

Filipe Manuel Batista Clemente has been a university professor since the 2012/2013 academic year and is currently an assistant professor at Escola Superior de Desporto e Lazer de Melgaço (IPVC, Portugal). Filipe holds a Ph.D. in Sports Sciences – Sports Training from the University of Coimbra; his dissertation entitled “Towards a new approach to match analysis: understanding football players’ synchronization using tactical metrics” involved observation and match analysis in soccer As scientific merit, Filipe has had 225 articles published and/or accepted by journals indexed with an impact factor (JCR), as well as over 105 scientific articles that have been peer-reviewed indexed in other indexes. In addition to scientific publications in journals and congresses, he is also the author of six international books and seven national books in the areas of sports training and football. He has also edited various special editions subordinate to sports training in football in journals with an impact factor and/or indexed in SCImago. Additionally, he is a frequent reviewer for impact factor journals in quartiles 1 and 2 of the JCR. Although he started producing research in 2011, he was recently included in the restricted list of the world’s most-cited researchers in the world (where only eight other Portuguese researchers in sports sciences appear), which was published in the journal Plos Biology. Filipe M. Clemente’s SCOPUS h-index is 22 (with a total of 2430 citations), and his Google h-index is 34 (5070 citations). In a list promoted by independent website Expert Escape, he was ranked 40th of 14, 875 researchers of football (soccer) in 2020 and in 19th of 15, 949 in 2021. He is also one of the members of the research team that received funding for the development of an observation and soccer analysis system ( Ultimate Performance Analysis Tool), and he has acted as a scientific consultant for the dataanalytics company JOHAN Sports. From a pedagogical point of view, he has been a full-time assistant professor at the School of Sport and Leisure since 2015, in addition to serving as a part-time assistant at the School of Education of Coimbra (2012-2015) and the Faculty of Sport Sciences and Physical Education of the University of Coimbra (2014-2015). In addition, he is the professor of curricular units associated with sports training methodology, training assessment, and monitoring and exercise physiology. He has also coordinated the Higher Professional Technical Course in Sports Training since 2016 and has been president of the Pedagogical Council since 2019. Moreover, he takes on other roles of pedagogical function in the school. As a member of the project, he received FCT funding for didactic innovation in higher education through the project “Science applied to the training of team sports games: A multidisciplinary integration model.” In terms of extension activities, he stands out for participating in training courses for coaches at the Football Association of Coimbra. Moreover, he currently works as a consultant in the areas of training monitoring and physiology for professional football teams, as well as for JOHAN Sports.