Invited lecturer for Sports Recreation section

Editorial board is proud to announce Željko Pedišić, PhD as a distinguished invited lecturer for the section on Sports Recreation.

Professor Željko Pedišić is the President of the International Network of Time-Use Epidemiologists (INTUE). His research is centred around chronic disease prevention and promotion of well-being through healthy use of time. His interests span: prevalence, determinants, and outcomes of unhealthy time use; statistical and measurement methods in time-use epidemiology; and public health surveillance, policies, and interventions. Author of the framework for Viable Integrative Research in Time-Use Epidemiology (VIRTUE) and the framework for Comprehensive Analysis of Policy on Physical Activity (CAPPA). Authored 106 articles in peer-reviewed journals (60 as the first, corresponding and/or senior author and 18 as the second author), 4 books, 16 book chapters, 10 pop-sci articles and infographics, 5 academic reports, and more than 70 conference papers and abstracts. Cited more than 8,700 times; H-index = 47; Field Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) = 3.04. As a supervisor or methodological consultant contributed to 4 bachelor, 25 master, and 17 PhD research theses. Since 2020, on the Elsevier’s list of top 1% researchers globally. Currently ranked among the top 0.38% of researchers globally in all fields of science. In free time, enjoys spending time with family and friends, playing piano, composing music, doing sports, cycling, skiing, and eating pizza.