Asst. Prof. Shawnda A. Morrison
morrison@nus.edu.sg
Dr. Shawnda Morrison (PhD, CSEP-CEP) is a clinical exercise physiologist who has been collaborating with the SLOfit research team since 2015. Her main research interests encompass environmental physiology, thermoregulation, and countermeasures to exertional heat strain. She is currently serving as a Senior Research Fellow in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore as technical lead of a project called “Cooling Singapore 2.0”, an interdisciplinary initiative aimed at determining how physical activity in the heat impacts vulnerable populations like children, heat-unacclimatised adults, and the elderly. This work is being conducted to better individualise global heat-health warning systems. Dr. Morrison is a Certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist from the Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology and Principal Investigator or member representative for the Republic of Slovenia on several international initiatives aimed to get kids moving, including: Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance, Outdoor Play Canada, the FitBack Network, and the Global Heat Health Information Network. Her studies on the neuromuscular demands of passive heat stress and cardiovascular strain in the heat have led her to advocate for greater public health engagement on harnessing physical activity as a climate change countermeasure, especially in the paediatric population.
Assoc. Prof. Petra Zaletel PhD
petra.zaletel@fsp.uni-lj.si
Dr. Petra Zaletel has been active in the field of dance and music-led fitness for 40 years, initially as a top athlete – an acrobatic rock and roll dancer, later as a dance judge and coach, and also as an aerobics instructor for group exercise to music and a sports aerobics coach. At the Faculty of Sport, she is responsible for the courses Dance, Aerobics – Group Exercise to Music, and Yoga in Sport. She also teaches the course 'Nutrition and Nutrition Supplements in Sport' in the international study program at the Faculty of Kinesiology in Split. Each year, she leads several continuing professional development programs in the fields of dance, aerobics, physical conditioning of children and youth, and yoga. She contributes to international scientific and professional conferences, symposiums, and congresses with many presentations, and as an invited lecturer, she shares her knowledge at foreign universities. She also lectures at webinars and seminars for international sports federations, associations, and sports clubs, including on topics of healthy lifestyles and sports nutrition. Zaletel is a member of the Dance Association of Slovenia, where she is responsible for annual athlete evaluations and participates in the training of professionals in the field of dance. She co-develops training programs for aerobics instructors at the Gymnastics Association of Slovenia and for group exercise at the Fitness Association of Slovenia. Zaletel is the author of ten textbooks, over 30 scientific papers, 90 professional articles, and two video teaching aids. She has mentored two doctoral theses, one scientific master's thesis, six Bologna master's theses, and has served as mentor or co-mentor for over 80 undergraduate theses in her field.