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Paolo has nearly two decades of international experience working across Olympic, Paralympic, and professional sports. Paolo has a breadth of experience in service delivery and managing performance support teams, additionally he has coached professional athletes and teams for over a decade.

Earlier in his career Paolo developed and managed the MAPEI Sport’s organisational Quality Management System. He has been embedded in National Teams in the preparation to the Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio 2016, and Tokyo 2020 Games. Paolo completed his PhD with Edith Cowan University (Perth) and is an active researcher with more than 60 publications (including peer-reviewed papers, book chapters).

He is currently the AIS Chief Science Officer, leading a team responsible for Quality Assurance, REST (recovery, environment, sleep, travel), athlete performance health, and R&D.

Dr Felicity Flack is the Manager, Policy and Client Services for Australia’s national data linkage infrastructure, the Population Health Research Network (PHRN). She has extensive experience in the development, coordination, and operation of national data linkage systems, particularly the navigation of cross-jurisdictional legislative, policy, and ethical issues.

She also has many years of experience in research ethics including working as a research ethics manager as well as being a member and Chair of the Sir Charles Gairdner and Osborne Park Health Care Group Human Research Ethics Committee. Dr Flack is a Churchill Fellow.

Professor Franco M. Impellizzeri began his career as a researcher in the private sector working as a coach, before becoming head of research at the MAPEI Sport Research Centre. Driven by the need to find information to understand how to properly train his athletes, and not finding answers in the existing literature, Franco started conducting many rigorous studies in training and performance. Professor Impellizzeri completed his PhD at the University of Science and Technology in Norway, with a project on high intensity training in soccer players.

Pursuing his interest in exploring another scientific environment, Franco moved into a clinical setting, he also started specializing in methodological aspects of research. Since 2018 Franco has been a Professor in Sport and Exercise Science and Medicine at the UTS Faculty of Health. Franco has more than 170 publications in the area of sport science and orthopedics. He is member of the editorial boards of various scientific journals including co-editor in chief of Science and Medicine in Football.

He is a fellow of the European College of Sport Sciences and member of the STORK (The Society for Transparency, Openness, and Replication in Kinesiology).