CAPELLI CARLO

Born in Milano, I, on 2/26/1959 Dr Capelli graduated in Medicine at the University of Milano in 1984. He worked as research assistant (1988-2000) and as associate professor (2000-2006) of Human Physiology at the University of Udine. In 2006 he was appointed Full Professor at the University of Verona. He has been appointed Full Professor of Human Physiology at the Department of Human Perfomances, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences in Oslo, Norway from 2105 to 2020. He is author of more than 120 papers published in international scientific, peer-reviewed journals. He has been the coordinator of the PhD course in Exercise Sciences and President of the Course in Exercise Science at UNIVR. On October 1st, he has been appointed full professor of Physiology at the Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, University of Milano, Italy.
The main scientific fields of interest of Dr. Capelli are: respiratory responses during exercise, the adaptation of humans to microgravity and disuse/training/aging. He is member of the Italian Physiological Society, of the American College of Sports Medicine of the European College of Sport Sciences and of the American Physiological Society.
Dr. Capelli spent several periods of study and work in foreign institutions: SUNY at Buffalo (USA), 1993 – 1994, Moscow (Russia), 1995, Ames NASA Centre, Moffet Field (USA), 1995, NASA Lyndon Johnson Space Centre, 1995 e 1996, Cologne (G), 2001, 2002 and 2003.
He has been funded as responsible of a local unit or as ccordinatori by the Italian Minister of University and Research, by the Italian Space Agency , by the European Space Agency and by a local charity for a study focused on motor disability and exercise capacity in cerebral palsy.