Filipe Manuel Batista Clemente has been a university professor since the 2012/2013 academic year and is currently an assistant professor at Escola Superior de Desporto e Lazer de Melgaço (IPVC, Portugal). Filipe holds a Ph.D. in Sports Sciences - Sports Training from the University of Coimbra; his dissertation entitled "Towards a new approach to match analysis: understanding football players' synchronization using tactical metrics" involved observation and match analysis in soccer

Although he started producing research in 2011, he was recently included in the restricted list of the world's most-cited researchers in the world (where only eight other Portuguese researchers in sports sciences appear), which was published in the journal Plos Biology. Filipe M. Clemente's SCOPUS h-index is 22 (with a total of 2430 citations), and his Google h-index is 34 (5070 citations). In a list promoted by independent website Expert Escape, he was ranked 40th of 14,875 researchers of football (soccer) in 2020 and in 19th of 15,949 in 2021.

From a pedagogical point of view, he has been a full-time assistant professor at the School of Sport and Leisure since 2015, in addition to serving as a part-time assistant at the School of Education of Coimbra (2012-2015) and the Faculty of Sport Sciences and Physical Education of the University of Coimbra (2014-2015). In addition, he is the professor of curricular units associated with sports training methodology, training assessment, and monitoring and exercise physiology. He has also coordinated the Higher Professional Technical Course in Sports Training since 2016 and has been president of the Pedagogical Council since 2019.

In terms of extension activities, he stands out for participating in training courses for coaches at the Football Association of Coimbra. Moreover, he currently works as a consultant in the areas of training monitoring and physiology for professional football teams, as well as for JOHAN Sports.

A systematic review including the accuracy, precision, and repeatability of the tests

A finest systematization of the most appropriate tests for different age categories and sexes

The first book dedicated to methodological concerns related to field-based soccer tests

Chapter 1. Introduction: Rationale for understanding accuracy, precision, and repeatability levels of field-based tests.- Chapter 2. Systematically revising the literature of field-based soccer tests.- Chapter 3. Summarizing and characterizing the field-based soccer tests.- Chapter 4. Evidence of accuracy, precision, and repeatability levels of field-based tests.- Chapter 5. Discussion of field-based soccer tests for aerobic fitness.- Chapter 6. Discussion of field-based soccer tests for sprinting, change-of-direction and agility.- Chapter 7. Discussion of field-based soccer tests for strength, power, and neuromuscular fitness.- Chapter 8. Conclusions & practical implications.