Adilson Passos da Costa Marques

Adilson Passos da Costa Marques is an Associate Professor with Habilitation at the University of Lisbon, affiliated with the Education, Social Sciences and Humanities Study Center. His research focuses on the bidirectional relationships between physical activity, depression, and health-related fitness across diverse populations including youth, middle-aged, and older adults.

• Key research areas: Public Health, Gerontology, Mental Health, Physical Fitness, and Epidemiology
• Recent work includes developing the Youth Fitness International Test (YFIT) battery, analyzing neurobiological and social mechanisms of physical activity on depression, and cross-national frailty studies in aging populations

The YFIT battery project represents a major contribution to standardized youth fitness assessment. His 2025 publications also explore topics like adiposity mortality associations, injury prediction models, and mental health interventions through physical activity.

This academic has no scientific awards listed in the provided text and no student advisees are mentioned. He is actively publishing in high-impact journals like Frontiers in Physiology, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, and European Journal of Sport Science.