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



















Penny Love
Deakin University
- ISBNPA Secretary 2025-2028

Leah Carpenter
Center for Nutrition & Health Impact
- Treasurer-elect 2024-2025
- Treasurer 2025-2028

Scott Duncan
Auckland University of Technology
- Chair, SIG Committee, 2021-2023
- Co-chair, Scientific Program Committee 2022-2023
- Member-at-large, (Representative of Oceania), 2023-2026
- Member-at-large, Executive Committee, 2020-202

Shilpa Dogra
Ontario Tech University
- Member-at-Large 2025-2028
- Member of the Climate Action Committee

Adewale L. Oyeyemi
Arizona State University
- Member-at-large, Executive Committee (Representative of Africa), 2023-2026
- Member-at-large, Executive Committee, 2020-2023

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

Carol Marher
University of South Australia
- Member-at-large, Executive Committee, 2022-2025
- Member-at-large, Executive Committee, 2025-2028
- Chair of the Membership Committee 2022-2025

Simone Verswijveren
Deakin University
- Member-at-large, Executive Committee, 2024-2027

Andrea Ramirez Varela
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) Texas
- Member-at-large, Executive Committee,(Representative of Latin America and Caribbean), 2023-2026

Deborah Salvo
University of Texas at Austin
- Member-at-large, Executive Committee, 2023-2026

Sarah Shaw
MRC at the University of Cambridge
- Early Career Researcher Representative, Executive Committee, 2024-2026
- Student-Representative (Member-at-large), Executive Committee, 2022-2024

Angelica Ochoa-Aviles
Universidad de Cuenca
- Member-at-large, Executive Committee, 2024-2027

Kylie Wilson
Arizona State University
- Student Representative (Member-at-large), Executive Committee, 2024-2026

António L. Palmeira
Universidade Lusófona
- Newsletter coordinator, 2007-Present
- Member-at-large, Executive Committee, 2012-2014
- Executive Director, 2014-Present