J. Paulo Vilas-Boas is a Full Professor of Biomechanics at the Faculty of Sport, University of Porto, Portugal. He is also the Director of LABIOMEP, a member of the governing council of the research unit CIFI2D, and President of the International Council of Biomechanics and Medicine in Swimming. He received his Ph.D. at the Faculty of Sport, University of Porto in 1993. He was a swimming coach for over 20 years and was elected three times as “Coach of the Year” of the Portuguese Swimming Coaches Association. He was distinguished, in 2022, with the Geoffrey Dyson Award of the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports (ISBS).