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Magni Mohr is Professor in Exercise Physiology, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, and Pro-Rector for Research and Enterprise at the University of the Faroe Islands since February 2020. He earned his PhD in Exercise Physiology from the University of Copenhagen, along with an MSc in Human Physiology in 2001 and a BSc in Exercise Physiology in 1998 from the same university. His extensive career includes serving as Professor in Football at the University of Southern Denmark since 2019, Associate Professor at the University of Gothenburg from 2013 to 2019, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Exeter from 2011 to 2014, and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Copenhagen from 2007 to 2011. Previously, he was Head of the Centre of Health Science, a collaboration between the University of the Faroe Islands, the Faroese National Hospital, and the Department of Occupational and Public Health, from 2016 to 2019. Mohr chairs the Board of Public Health on the Faroe Islands since 2016 and founded and leads the iNOVA Human Performance Laboratory since 2014. He has supervised 54 Bachelor students, 35 Master students, and 10 PhD students to graduation from 2017 to 2022 and currently supervises 8 PhD students. Additionally, he has organized international PhD courses and student exchanges, and served as section editor for the Journal of Sports Sciences from 2015 to 2018 and editor for the Faroese University Press from 2015 to 2020.