Yago Ramis

Yago Ramis (Representative of the Associació Catalana de Psiclogia de l’Esport; ACPE) from the  Psychology Faculty of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB). He works as a lecturer and researcher in the field of Sport Psychology and is a member of the Research Group in Sport and Exercise Psychology (GEPE). In the last decade, he has participated in eight European Projects focusing mainly on the social influence on Youth Sport involvement and student-athletes’ development of Dual Careers. As a Lecturer, he has participated in four editions of the European Master in Sport and Exercise Psychology (EMSEP).

He finished his PhD in 2012. His thesis assessed the competitive anxiety of young athletes and the influence of social agents from a Self-Determination Theory perspective.

C/ de la Fortuna, Edifici B – B5/142
Campus de la UAB · 08193 Bellaterra
(Cerdanyola del Vallès) · Barcelona
Spain
Tel: +34 93 586 8395
yago.ramis@uab.cat

Michala Bednáriková

Michala Bednáriková (Representative of Slovenská asociácia športovej psychológie ; SAŠP) received her master degree in psychology at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. Her final thesis focused on critical situations that coaches handle with their athletes. In 2018 she became the first FEPSAC certified specialist in applied sport psychology.

She works as an applied practitioner with athletes, their parents and coaches; as well as provides lectures and workshops for sport organizations. She is an active member of professional organizations in the field of sport psychology for almost a decade. She served as a managing council member of ENYSSP for 2 terms since 2011. In 2017 she became a president of Slovak association of sport psychology.

Mgr. Michala Bednáriková
Pro Performance
Belehradska 8
831 04 Bratislava, Slovakia
Tel: +421 907 734 436
bednarikova@sportpsych.sk

Anastasiya Khomutova

Anastasiya Khomutova (Representative of European Network of Young Specialists in Sport Psychology ; ENYSSP) was born in Ukraine (Donetsk), she got her masters and PhD degrees in the Czech Republic (Palacky University in Olomouc), and currently, she works as a lecturer at the University of Brighton in the UK. Her research focuses on culturally diverse sport teams, as well as, more recently, on coach-athlete relationships in combat sports.

School of Sport and Service Management
Hillbrow
1 Denton road
Eastbourne BN20 7SR
UK
a.khomutova@brighton.ac.uk

Franziska Lautenbach

Franziska Lautenbach ((Representative of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Sportpsychologie in Deutschland e.V. ; ASP) is Junior professor for Sport Psychology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. She is also vice president for Young Researchers in the German Association of Sport Psychology (asp). She received her Diploma in Sport Science in 2011 and her first state diploma for teaching in 2012. She finished her PhD focusing on the effects of psychophysiological stress on cognition and performance in 2016 and is currently working on positive emotions, cognition and performance in sport and physical education.

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Institute of Sport Science
Sport Psychology
Philippstr. 13 | 10115 Berlin | House 11| Room 2.12
Phone: +49 (0) 30 209346043
Email: Franziska.Lautenbach@hu-berlin.de

Alexis Ruffault

Alexis Ruffault (Representative of the Institut National du Sport, de l’Expertise et de la Performance ; INSEP) has a PhD in health psychology from Paris Descartes University (2017). He is a regular member of the French Society of Sport Psychology (SFPS) since 2010, and was elected to be part of the Managing Council since 2017. He currently works as a researcher in sport and health psychology at the French Institute of Sport (INSEP), in Paris. This position allows him to provide interventions aiming at training mental skills, but also to provide cognitive-behavior therapies to injured athletes. His work as a researcher focuses on the psychological aspects of sport injury, from prevention to impact to return to sport, as well as changing behaviors preventing injuries (e.g., warm-up, recovery, diet) using sociocognitive theory-based techniques.

Institut National du Sport, de l’Expertise et de la Performance
Laboratoire SEP, Bâtiment C
11 avenue du Tremblay, 75012 Paris
France
Tel: +33 (0)1 41 74 45 49
alexis.ruffault@insep.fr