**About the Editor**

**Luca Paolo Ardigo**, Assistant Professor in Sport Science, is a physiologist and biomechanist at the School of Exercise and Sport Science, Department of Neurosciences, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences of the University of Verona in Italy. His main areas of research/teaching are the biomechanics and bioenergetics of natural and assisted locomotion and portable devices for measuring metabolic expenditure and physical activity. He first dealt with biomechanics and bioenergetics of assisted movement and locomotion during his Ph.D. in Biomechanics at the Exercise and Sport Sciences Department, Institute for Biophysical and Clinical Research into Human Movement of Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK (thesis title: "Energetics and mechanics of passively assisted locomotion"). He is the author of more than one hundred articles in scientific journals (32 of which as well as 1 book are on biomechanics and bioenergetics of human assisted movement and locomotion) and edited some of them. Additionally, he leads an international group for the design, construction and evaluation of "handbike" boats for disabled people.
