Prof. Robert C. Schneider, PhD

Dr. Robert Schneider holds the title of Distinguished Service Professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Brockport. He is the director of the sport management program at Brockport, which is ranked 14th in the United States (2017 College Choice National Ranking Service). In 2010 Dr. Schneider received the highest scholarship award granted from the State University of New York (SUNY) system of higher education: The Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship/Creative Activity. His efforts have advanced sport management at universities, and sport-based organizations throughout the world. A frequent invited keynote speaker, Dr. Schneider’s scholarship primarily focuses on the versatility of sport management content and how it can align with, and meet university and sport industry goals. The author of several textbooks, Dr. Schneider’s most recent will be published in April of 2021 and is entitled, “Ethics of Sport and Athletics: Theory, Issues, and Application.” No less than, 90 publications and more than 150 presentations in over 30 different countries represent Dr. Schneider’s sport management based contributions to the literature. He also serves on over 20 advisory, editorial or guest editorial boards for international or national peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Schneider continues to accept speaking and consulting invitations where he interacts with university officials and leaders in sport organizations as part of his long-standing efforts to serve in helping institutions develop sport management programs that meet their needs.

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Prof. Patrik Drid, PhD

Patrik Drid received his Bachelor, Magister, and a Ph.D. in Sport Sciences at the Faculty of Sport and Physical Education, University of Novi Sad. Currently working as a Full Professor of Combat sports at the University of Novi Sad. He has been appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Travnik (2016/2017) and the University of Montenegro (2018/2019). His current research is focused on physiological responses to maximal and sub-maximal exercise in judo and combat sports. Besides, in the last couple of years, his focused on molecular hydrogen administration on biomarkers of acid-base homeostasis and post-exercise recovery in judo athletes as well as on effects of oral guanidino acetic acid in human nutrition.
He has authored and co-authored 150+ peer-reviewed articles in multidisciplinary journals with impact factors, 100+ invited lectures and conference abstracts, 18 book chapters, and five books. Reviewer of several international scientific journals 150+.
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Prof. dr. sc. Igor Jukić

Igor Jukić is a university professor, international lecturer and high performance specialist. He holds a bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in kinesiology from the Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb. In the period 2009/13 he was the dean of the Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb. He has published in more than 200 papers related to sports science and practice. He is a professor at the Football Science Institute (FSI) and a member of the advisory board of the Euroleague Players Association (ELPA). In the field of practical work he worked with senior and youth basketball teams of Croatia, winning a gold medal with the U-18 team at Eurobasket in 1996 and a silver medal with the U-20 team at the 2001 World Cup. He worked with the senior basketball team from 1997-2006., and participated in Eurobasket 1999, 2003 and 2005. With the Croatian national football team he participated as strength and conditioning coach in the World Cup in Brazil 2014, and in the Euro qualifiers for Euro 2016. In the period 2016/18 he was head of performance in the Baskonia-Alaves group where he established unique high performance system BAL. 2021 he works as a high performance specialist at FC CSKA Moscow. Also, from 1999 until today he works as a individual high performance specialist of top international athletes. In 2011, he founded Biotrening Ltd., a company with international references in the field of high performance in sport. From 2022 he is director of Croatian High Performance Sport Center (Croatian Olympic Comittee) He is the founder (2003) and current Secretary General of the Croatian Physical Conditioning Association, and the founder (2006) and current Secretary General of the European Physical Conditioning Association. In Zagreb, he founded the magazine Physical Conditioning (2003) and the international conference Physical Conditioning of Athletes (2003).

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Ingi Thor Einarsson

Ingi studied physics at the University of Iceland with a focus on geothermal activity, and later he studied sport science at the same school where is Bs. thesis was about race analyses in swimming. Ingi then earned his master's degree in Sport Science from the University of Iceland with strong collaboration with the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. His master thesis (A comparison of race parameters in Icelandic swimmers with and without intellectual disabilities) is one of the research that the S14 classification system is based on today. Ingi then defended is Ph.D. Dissertation, Physical fitness and health of Icelandic children with intellectual disability
Research fields and collaborations:
Ingi has published several articles in peer-reviewed papers about the performance of Intellectually disabled (ID) swimmers. As well as papers on Physical fitness and public health among intellectually disabled children. In addition, he has published papers on open water swimming as well as on Functional Aquatic resistance Training. Ingi is also currently in few international research teams that, among others are looking into classification research, with a focus on swimmers with ID. Ingi is also one of the more experienced ID classifiers today.
Coaching career:
Ingi started coaching in 1989 as a junior coach for the local swimming club. He always welcomed disabled swimmers to swim with his abled body swimming club when he was a junior coach and kept that going after he became a head coach. Ingi has worked with disabled swimmers swimming at the Paralympic games since 1996 and has to date worked with swimmers who have won in total eight medals at the Paralympic games. Ingi also coached and worked closely with swimmers at Sydney, Athens, and Beijing Olympic games, where the highest-ranked swimmer he worked ended up in fourth place. Ingi has also, for many years, been one of the Icelandic para national team coaches. For a brief time, he was also working as a national team coach for NPC Belgium.
Work career:
Ingi started working for the national energy association but quickly moved away from that into full-time professional swimming coaching. He then took a lecturer position at the University of Iceland and is currently a professor at the University of Reykjavik.

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