Professor Franco M. Impellizzeri began his career (1997) as a researcher in the private sector working as a coach, before becoming head of research at the MAPEI Sport Research Centre (Italy). This research center was created by a private company (MAPEI SpA) to take care of the athletes sponsored, including their owned Professional Cycling Team, for 9 years at the top of the International Cycling Union ranking. In those years, this center was considered among the most advanced private research center for sport in Europe. Driven by the need to find information to understand how to properly train his athletes, and not finding answers in the existing literature, Franco started conducting many rigorous studies in training and performance. Franco started as athlete track and field, progressively moving to combat sports winning some National Championships in Italy, and becoming part of the National Team for few years. Franco has collaborated with international sport organizations and trained several elite athletes in various disciplines (including two Gold Medalists at the Olympic Games). More recently, Franco has been the fitness coach of the Swiss Fencing Team (2012 to 2016) for the preparation of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

Professor Impellizzeri completed his PhD at the University of Science and Technology in Norway, with a project on high intensity training in soccer player. Professor Impellizzeri started collaborating with academic institutions during the period working at the MAPEI Sport Research Center, and has worked as part time lecturer and researcher for the University of Milan and the University of Verona (CeRISM, Rovereto). In those years, Impellizzeri also received the abilitation as Associate Professor at the University of Verona.

Pursuing his interest in exploring another scientific environment, he moved in clinical setting for 10 years (from 2007 to 2018) as Senior Research Fellow at the Schulthess Clinic in Zurich, Switzerland, where he was the Head of the Lower Limb Clinical Outcome group. Here, he developed, after a short period in the Neuromuscular Research Lab, his research on clinical outcomes and specifically in the area of clinimetrics (patient-reported outcome measures)' He also started specialising on methodological aspects of research (by completing courses with the University of Berne, SWI, and Leeds, UK). In Zurich, Professor Impellizzeri conducted projects on injury prevention programs with studies supported by the Football Medical and Research Centre (F-MARC) of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA).

In 2018, Professor Impellizzeri moved back full-time to sports as Professor in Sport and Exercise Science and Medicine at the UTS Faculty of Health. He has scientific publications (>200) and book chapters in the area of sports science and orthopedics. He is member of the editorial boards of various scientific journals including Editor in Chief of Science and Medicine in Football. He is fellow of the European College of Sport Sciences and a member of STORK (The Society for Transparency, Openness, and Replication in Kinesiology), a member of the Australasian Epidemiology Association, and collaborator of the Peer Community In (Health & Movement Sciences).

Professor Impellizzeri plans to develop more research in the area of injury epidemiology while continuing to work on training, testing, and monitoring athletes.