FEPSAC Monograph / 50 Years of FEPSAC – Recent Developments in European Sport Psychology

Anne-Marie Elbe is full professor of sport psychology at Leipzig University, Germany. Her previous posts were at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Northumbria University, Newcastle in the UK and at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Her publications and research interests focus on motivational and self-regulatory aspects of athletic performance, doping, health aspects of team sports and the integrative role of sports. She is associate editor for Science and Medicine in Football and on the editorial board of Psychology of Sport and Exercise. Anne-Marie Elbe has been on the FEPSAC MC since 2007, served as vice president (2011–2015) and currently serves as FEPSAC president (2015–2019).

Roland Seiler obtained a degree in physical education from University of Bern and a PhD in psychology from the German Sport University Cologne, where he also acquired his venia legendi in sport psychology. He was the head of the sport psychology section at the Swiss Federal Office of Sport in Magglingen from 1996 until 2005, when he was appointed professor at the University of Bern's Institute of Sport Science. He served FEPSAC for 16 years, of which the last four were as president (2003–2007), and was president of the Swiss Association of Sport Psychology (1997–2007). His research focuses mainly on psychological regulation of efficient team actions and the management of quality in applied sport psychology.