President: Seb Chastin

Sebastien Chastin is a Professor of Health Behavior Dynamics in the School of Health and Life Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University and in the Department of Movement and Sports Sciences at Ghent University. He received BSc in metrology and applied physics, Master in Applied Physics a Master in Rehabilitation Sciences and a PhD in Non-linear physics. He is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. Previously he had post at the British Antarctic Survey, Oxford and Edinburgh University. His research focusses on dynamics of health behaviour in relation to ageing, places and systems. Understanding why, when and how people decide to move or not, is crucial to promoting healthy movement behaviour and ageing. He develops statistical and analytical techniques to extract information from body worn sensor such as accelerometers that enable to understand how humans accumulate physical activity, sedentary time and sleep and how this changes over time. Currently Sebastien has as a large portfolio of projects on the determinants of movement behaviour in older adults and clinical populations.

Past Presidents

Carol Marher
University of South Australia

  • President-elect 2026-2027
  • Member-at-large, Executive Committee, 2022-2025
  • Member-at-large, Executive Committee, 2025-2028
  • Chair of the Membership Committee 2022-2025

Penny Love
Deakin University

  • ISBNPA Secretary 2025-2028

Leah Carpenter
Center for Nutrition & Health Impact  

  • Treasurer-elect 2024-2025
  • Treasurer 2025-2028

Inês Santos
Universidade de Lisboa

  • Chair, Communications Committee, 2022-2028
  • Member-at-large, Executive Committee, 2022-2028
  • Member, Communications Committee, 2018-2021
  • Member, #Dare2Share Committee, 2019-2020
  • Member-at-large, Membership Committee, 2020-2022

Shilpa Dogra

Ontario Tech University

  • Member-at-Large 2025-2028
  • Member of the Climate Action Committee

Alissa Burnett
Deakin University 

  • Member-at-large, Oceania, 2026-2029

Simone Verswijveren
Deakin University

  • Member-at-large, Executive Committee, 2024-2027

Umar Hassan
Arizona State University

  • Student-Representative (Member-at-large), Executive Committee, 2026-2028

Angelica Ochoa-Aviles
Universidad de Cuenca

  • Member-at-large, Executive Committee, 2024-2027

Philippe Gradidge
University of the Witwatersrand

  • Member-at-large, Africa, Executive Committee, 2026-2029

Neha Rathi
Ahmedabad University

  • Member-at-large, Executive Committee, Asia 2026-2029

Jordan Curry
Colorado State University

  • Early Career Representative Member-at-large, 2026-2028

Nicolás Aguilar-Farías
Universidad de La Frontera

  • Member-at-large, Executive Committee, South America and Caribbean, 2026-2029

António L. Palmeira
Universidade Lusófona

  • Newsletter coordinator, 2007-Present
  • Member-at-large, Executive Committee, 2012-2014
  • Executive Director, 2014-Present