Paulo de Tarso Veras Farinatti, Ph.D, holds a Bachelor's degree in Physical Education from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ, 1987). He completed his Master's degree (1991) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and his PhD (1998) at the Free University of Brussels (ULB, Belgium). He conducted postdoctoral research (funded by CNPq) in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Connecticut (UConn, USA) from 2013 to 2014.He is a Full Professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, where he has taught since 1988. He founded and has coordinated the Laboratory of Physical Activity and Health Promotion at UERJ since 2000. In 2016, he became the Vice-Director of the Human Aging Center (formerly the Open University of the Third Age) at UERJ.