O Laboratório de Biomecânica da Universidade do Porto (LABIOMEP-UP) foi criado com a intenção de congregar os esforços da massa crítica da Universidade do Porto nos domínios da Biomecânica, sejam eles dedicados ao ensino, investigação e extensão universitária, nos domínios desportivo, forense, clínico, da saúde e da segurança, da ergonomia, etc. Trata-se, portanto, de uma unidade de vocação transversal à generalidade dos territórios da Universidade e, por isso, eminentemente trans e interdisciplinar.
Dedicando-se ao estudo das causas e dos efeitos das forças e tensões geradas e aplicadas pelos e aos sistemas biológicos e aos dispositivos protéticos e ortópticos, o LABIOMEP-UP recorre à medição e processamento de dados relativos a forças internas e externas aos sistemas biológicos e aos seus efeitos, nomeadamente cinemáticos e plásticos, os domínios de operação alongam-se da dinamometria à cinemetria, passando pela eletromiografia, morfometria (interna – recorrendo a imagem médica – e externa – recorrendo a levantamento de forma planar e 3D), termografia e bioenergética. Em qualquer destes espaços, e particularmente no domínio da sua interpretação cruzada e integrada, a informática está recorrentemente presente, seja através de aplicações “cliente”, seja através de soluções dedicadas vocacionadas para a solução de problemas específicos. Este é, obviamente, um casamento virtuoso: dos que fluem sem que se percebam grandes tensões entre os méritos e limitações de cada parte. Pelo contrário: não podem já viver uns sem os outros…
“Investigação, ensino e serviços em Biomecânica: um casamento virtuoso com a informática” será apresentada dia 28 de junho, às 15:00, na sala B011 da FEUP, com a moderação do Prof. Rui Camacho (DEI).
“João Paulo Vilas-Boas was born in 1960; Full Professor of Biomechanics at the University of Porto, Faculty of Sport, since 2004; Head of LABIOMEP-UP – Porto Biomechanics Laboratory, University of Porto; ISBS Geoffrey Dyson Award 2022; Invited Full Professor of Biomechanics at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto, since 2009; resident of the International Council Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming (icBMS); Head of the Biomechanics Laboratory of the University of Porto (LABIOMEP); Member of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral Course in Sport Sciences of the University of Porto; Member of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral Course in Physiotherapy of the University of Porto; Member of the Scientific Committee of the Doctoral Course in Occupational Health and Safety of the University of Porto; Member of the Direction Board of the Research Unit CIF2D / FCT; Participant and responsible for several financed research and co-promotion applied research projects; Promoter, co-promoter or advisor of more than 40 Ph.D. defended thesis in Portugal and abroad; Promoter of more than 95 M.Sc. dissertations; teaches Biomechanics and Swimming Science at graduation and post-graduation courses of Sport Sciences, Bioengineering, Physiotherapy and Podiatry in a number of universities in Portugal and abroad; Invited speaker at more than 220 scientific and professional meetings; Author of more than 760 presentations to scientific and professional meetings; Author of more than 420 scientific papers internationally published under peer review process, from which more than 290 indexed at SCOPUS (h-Index=32); Author and / or editor of 14 books with national or international circulation;
Editorial boards member of: Journal of Swimming Research; Springer Book Series: Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics (LNCVB); Journal for Computational Vision and Biomechanics; Revista Brasileira de Docência, Ensino e Pesquisa em Educação Física, Faculdade Central de Cristalina, Brazil; Motricidade; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Review Editor of: Frontier in Bioengineering – Biomechanics.
Associated Editor of: Sports Biomechanics; Portuguese Journal of Sport Sciences; International Journal on Multidisciplinary Approaches to Innovation (IJMAI).
Peer Review boards of more than 30 international journals.
Chairman of the X International Symposium on Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming, Porto 2006; Co-chairman of the XXIX International Conference on Biomechanics in Sports, ISBS’2011, Porto; Swimming coach for more than 20 years, having participated at European and World Championships; Six times proposed and three times elected “Coach of the Year” of the Portuguese Swimming Coaches Association ; Three times Swimming Teams Portuguese National Champion (Futebol Clube do Porto); Coached bronze medalists in Dunkerque and Malta European Junior Swimming Championships; Olympic Coach at Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004; Member of the board of the Portuguese Swimming Federation between December 2004 and 2008; President of the General Assembly of the Portuguese Swimming Federation from 2008 to 2012; Member of the Board of the Olympic Committee of Portugal since 2012; Vice-President of the Olympic Committee of Portugal since 2021.”