Physiological factors affecting human perfomances - Prof. Carlo Capelli MD, PhD Verona University

Professor Carlo Capelli graduated in medicine at the University of Milano (Italy) in 1984. He worked as a research assistant in Human Physiology at the University of Udine from 1988 to 2000 and as an associate professor until 2006, when he was appointed Full Professor at the University of Verona. He wasappointed Full Professor in Human Physiology at the Department of Physical Perfomance at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo (Norway) from 2015 to 2019, and he returned to the University of Verona where he is presently employed.

Professor Capelli spent several periods of study and work in foreign institutions: SUNY at Buffalo (USA), 1993 – 1994, Ames NASA Centre, Moffet Field (USA), 1995, NASA Lyndon Johnson Space Centre, 1995 and 1996, in ESA Cologne (G), 2001, 2002 and 2003.

He is author of more than 160 papers published in international scientific, peer-reviewed journals. He is the coordinator of the PhD course in Exercise Sciencesat the University of Verona.

The main scientific fields of interest of Professor Capelli are: respiratory responses during exercise and adaptation of humans to microgravity and disuse/training.

He is a member of the Italian Physiological Society, of the American College of Sports Medicine, of the European College of Sport Sciences and of the American Physiological Society.