Dimitris Farantos, Human Movement Scientist(Msc) raised in Istiaia,Evoia Greece.
2011, 18 years old, assistant on physiological measurement and performance optimization for elite athletes in Athens while doing my bachelor degree on Physiotherapy at University of Patras, Greece.
2016, accepted for my Master Degree on Human Movement Science at Vrije University of Amsterdam and founded Soma Lab Agency. As my master thesis i validated a human movement analysis protocol for extracting in game injury risk of elite ballers without wearables only with the use of the full video of the game. All the movement patterns of players of Boston Celtics of 2017-2018 season were analysed without the team knowing and the injury risk data pool consisted of over 20.000 data points. Resulted in a high correlation between the injury risks extracted and the injuries that occurred in the season.
2018, returned in Greece to work as partner at Galatsi Olympic Hall as Lead of Prehab and Human Movement Science, analysing, treating, training and educating athletes and elite dancers in biomechanical improvement and performance optimization.
2020, started working as Head of Human Movement for Soma Lab Agency. Without stoping building the data pool all these years (over 80.000 movement analysis) from 2016, with injury risks from different teams of the NBA league (without the teams knowing because we used just the full video of the game, not teams or players private health data) and making F1 movement analysis stronger.
I also studied under and have been mentored by well-known appreciated figures in sport science and business :
Carl Foster , USA National leader in Preventive and Rehabilitative Exercise
Jaap Van Dieen , Neuromechanics
Donnie Ramon , Biomechanist of athletes (exmpl. Lebron James,Chris Paul etc) from elite leagues
David Alexander , Trainer of athletes (exmpl. Dwayne Wade,Donovan MIchell etc.) from elite leagues
Panagiotis Tsakos , Owner of Tsakos Energy Navigation LTD.
Joaquín Cortés , Innovator on dance art
In 2022 SomaLab was chosen among the most innovative businesses by Orange Grove, an initiative from the Embassy of the Kingdom of Netherlands in Greece.