Role
Associate Professor of Sports Methods and Teaching at the University of Ferrara and Vice-Coordinator of the Degree Course in Sports Sciences at the same university.
Bio
Luciana Zaccagni graduated with honors in Natural Sciences in 1991 from the University of Bologna. She earned a PhD in Anthropological Sciences in 1995 with a thesis entitled "Anthropometric Characteristics and Sports Performance in High-Level Volleyball Players" from the University of Bologna. From 1995 to 1997, she received a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship with a research project entitled "The Determination of Biological Age in Former Athletes" from the University of Bologna. From 2001 to 2008, she was a tenured secondary school teacher. From 2008 to 2020, she was a Research Associate in the M-EDF/02 Sports Methods and Teaching program at the University of Ferrara, and from 2020 to the present, she has been an Associate Professor in the same program.
Luciana Zaccagni's research focuses on the relationship between anthropometric characteristics and athletic performance for aptitude selection and to provide guidance for improving performance, and on the association between lifestyle (especially physical activity and/or sports), weight status, and body image perception to highlight strategies for preventing overweight and obesity in the population.